Upaniṣads · Bṛhadāraṇyaka 4.2
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Bṛhadāraṇyaka 4.2.1
जनको ह वैदेहः कूर्चादुपावसर्पन्नुवाच नमस्तेऽस्तु याज्ञवल्क्य ।
अनु मा शाधीति ।
स होवाच यथा वै सम्राण्महान्तमध्वानमेष्यन् रथं वा नावं वा समाददीतैवमेवैताभिरुपनिषद्भिः समाहितात्मासि ।
एवं वृन्दारक आढ्यः सन्नधीतवेद उक्तोपनिषत्क इतो विमुच्यमानः क्व गमिष्यसीति ।
नाहं तद्भगवन् वेद यत्र गमिष्यामीति ।
अथ वै तेऽहं तद्वक्ष्यामि यत्र गमिष्यसीति ।
ब्रवीतु भगवानिति ॥ ४.२.१ ॥
Janaka of Videha rose from his seat, approached and said: Homage to you, Yājñavalkya. Instruct me. He said: Just as an emperor about to make a long journey takes a chariot or a boat, so you are one of composed self through these Upaniṣads. Thus, you who are excellent and rich, who have studied the Veda and learned the Upaniṣads, where will you go when released from here? Venerable one, I do not know where I shall go. Then I will tell you where you will go. Let the venerable one speak.
Bṛhadāraṇyaka 4.2.2
इन्धो ह वै नामैष योऽयं दक्षिणेऽक्षन् पुरुषः ।
तं वा एतमिन्धं सन्तमिन्द्र इत्याचक्षते परोक्षेणैव ।
परोक्षप्रिया इव हि देवाः प्रत्यक्षद्विषः ॥ ४.२.२ ॥
This person in the right eye is indeed named the Kindler. That which is the Kindler they call Indra, only indirectly, for the gods are, as it were, fond of the indirect and hostile to the direct.
Bṛhadāraṇyaka 4.2.3
अथैतद्वामेऽक्षणि पुरुषरूपमेषास्य पत्नी विराट् ।
तयोरेष संस्तावो य एषोऽन्तर्हृदय आकाशः ।
अथैनयोरेतदन्नं य एषोऽन्तर्हृदये लोहितपिण्डः ।
अथैनयोरेतत्प्रावरणं यदेतदन्तर्हृदये जालकमिव ।
अथैनयोरेषा सृतिः संचरणी यैषा हृदयादूर्ध्वा नाड्युच्चरति ।
यथा केशः सहस्रधा भिन्न एवमस्यैता हिता नाम नाड्योऽन्तर्हृदये प्रतिष्ठिता भवन्ति ।
एताभिर्वा एतदास्रवदास्रवति ।
तस्मादेष प्रविविक्ताहारतर इव भवत्यस्माच्छारीरादात्मनः ॥ ४.२.३ ॥
Then the person-form in his left eye is his wife Virāj. The place where they meet is the space within the heart. Their food is the red lump within the heart. Their covering is the net-like thing within the heart. Their path of movement is the channel that rises upward from the heart. Just as a hair is split a thousand ways, so his channels called hitā are established within the heart. Through them the essence flows. Therefore he becomes, as it were, one who eats more sparingly than this bodily ātman.
Bṛhadāraṇyaka 4.2.4
तस्य प्राची दिक्प्राञ्चः प्राणाः ।
दक्षिणा दिग्दक्षिणे प्राणाः ।
प्रतीची दिक्प्रत्यञ्चः प्राणाः ।
उदीची दिगुदञ्चः प्राणाः ।
ऊर्ध्वा दिगूर्ध्वाः प्राणाः ।
अवाची दिगवाञ्चः प्राणाः ।
सर्वा दिशः सर्वे प्राणाः ।
स एष नेति नेत्यात्मा ।
अगृह्यो न हि गृह्यते ।
अशीर्यो न हि शीर्यते ।
असङ्गो न हि सज्यते ।
असितो न व्यथते ।
न रिष्यति ।
अभयं वै जनक प्राप्तोऽसीति होवाच याज्ञवल्क्यः ।
स होवाच जनको वैदेहोऽभयं त्वा गच्छताद्याज्ञवल्क्य यो नो भगवन्नभयं वेदयसे ।
नमस्तेऽस्तु ।
इमे विदेहा अयमहमस्मीति ॥ ४.२.४ ॥
For him the eastern quarter is the forward-going breaths; the southern quarter the southern breaths; the western quarter the returning breaths; the northern quarter the upward-going breaths; the upper quarter the upward breaths; the lower quarter the downward breaths; all quarters and all breaths are indeed he. He is this ātman: neti, neti — not this, not this. He is ungraspable, for he is not grasped; indestructible, for he is not destroyed; unattached, for he does not cling; unbound, so he does not suffer and does not perish. Yājñavalkya said: 'Janaka, you have attained fearlessness.' Then Janaka, the Videha king, said: 'May fearlessness come to you too, Yājñavalkya, you who make known fearlessness to us, revered sir. Homage to you. These are the Videhas, and I am here.'