Brahmananda Valli, Section 6
Original Sanskrit
1 असन्नेव स भवति असद्ब्रह्मेति वेद चेत् । ब्रह्मेति चेद्वेद । सन्तमेनं ततो विदुरिति । तस्यैष एव शारीर आत्मा ।यः पूर्वस्य अथातोऽनुप्रश्नाः । उताविद्वानमुं लोकं प्रेत्य । कश्चन गच्छी३ । आहो विद्वानमुं लोकं प्रेत्य कश्चित्समश्नुता ३ उ ।सोऽकामयत । बहुभ्यां प्रजायेयेति । स तपोऽतप्यत । स तपस्तप्त्वा । इदँ सर्वमसृजत । यदिदं किञ्च । तत्सृष्ट्वा ।तदेवानुप्राविशत् । तदनुप्रविश्य । सच्च त्यच्चाभवत् । निरुक्तं चानिरुक्तं च । निलयनं चानिलयनं च । विज्ञानं चाविज्ञानं च ।सत्यं चानृतं च । सत्यमभवत् । यदिदं किञ्च । तत्सत्यमित्याचक्षते । तदप्येष श्लोको भवति ॥
Musean translation
Mouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from the Sanskrit, covering all three vallīs and 31 anuvākas with the supplied invocations and colophon. Source-language review and one documented Sanskrit repair are recorded in the source registry.
1 One becomes as though nonexistent if one knows Brahman as nonexistent. But if one knows Brahman, they know that person as existent. This is the embodied selfof the preceding one. Now come the further questions: "Does anyone who does not know reach that world after departing? Or does someone who knows attain that world after departing?"It desired: "May I become many; may I be born." It practiced ardor. Having practiced ardor, it created all this, whatever there is. Having created it,it entered into that very creation. Having entered it, it became the tangible and the intangible, the defined and the undefined, the grounded and the ungrounded, the conscious and the unconscious,truth and untruth. It became the real: whatever there is. That they call the real. Of this too there is a verse.
Plain English translation
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1 Anyone who knows Brahman as nonexistent becomes nonexistent. If someone knows that Brahman exists, people then know that person as existing. This is the self within the bodyof the one before it. Now come the further questions: Does anyone who does not know reach that world after death? Or does someone who knows reach that world after death?It wished, “May I become many. May I be born.” It practiced self-discipline. After practicing self-discipline, it created all this, everything that is here. After creating it,it entered that very creation. After entering it, it became the definite and the indefinite, what can be described and what cannot, what has a resting place and what does not, what has understanding and what does not,truth and falsehood. It became reality: everything that is here. That is what they call reality. There is also this verse about it.
About this section
Brahmananda Valli, Section 6 is part of Taittiriya Upanishad by Unknown. This page sets the Sanskrit original beside 2 direct-source translations, so any line can be checked against the source. It is section 18 of 31 in the work, which is kept in the Hindu tradition.
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