Īśa Upanishad

ईशा वास्यमिदं सर्वं यत्किं च जगत्यां जगत्

Line 1All this—everything that moves within the moving world—is to be understood as pervaded by the Lord.

तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्य स्विद्धनम्

Line 2Enjoy and protect life through non-grasping; do not covet, for whose possession is wealth?

कुर्वन्नेवेह कर्माणि जिजीविषेच्छतं समाः

Line 1By doing one's work here, one may wish to live a hundred years.

एवं त्वयि नान्यथेतोऽस्ति न कर्म लिप्यते नरे

Line 2For you there is no other way of living so that action does not bind the person.

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसावृताः

Line 1Sunless are those worlds, covered by blinding darkness.

तांस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः

Line 2To them go those who, through ignorance, deny or destroy awareness of the Self.

अनेजदेकं मनसो जवीयो नैनद्देवा आप्नुवन्पूर्वमर्षत्

Line 1The One is unmoving yet swifter than the mind; the senses cannot overtake it, for it is already before them.

तद्धावतोऽन्यानत्येति तिष्ठत्तस्मिन्नपो मातरिश्वा दधाति

Line 2Standing still, it surpasses all who run; within it the cosmic life-power supports every activity.

तदेजति तन्नैजति तद्दूरे तद्वन्तिके

Line 1It moves, and it does not move; it is far away, and it is very near.

तदन्तरस्य सर्वस्य तदु सर्वस्यास्य बाह्यतः

Line 2It is within all this, and it is also beyond all this.

यस्तु सर्वाणि भूतान्यात्मन्येवानुपश्यति

Line 1Whoever sees all beings in the Self alone,

सर्वभूतेषु चात्मानं ततो न विजुगुप्सते

Line 2and sees the Self in every being, no longer turns away from anyone.

यस्मिन्सर्वाणि भूतान्यात्मैवाभूद्विजानतः

Line 1For the one who knows and for whom every being has become the Self,

तत्र को मोहः कः शोक एकत्वमनुपश्यतः

Line 2what delusion and what sorrow can remain when unity is seen?

स पर्यगाच्छुक्रमकायमव्रणमस्नाविरं शुद्धमपापविद्धम्

Line 1That radiant reality is bodiless, uninjured, without sinews, pure and untouched by wrongdoing.

कविर्मनीषी परिभूः स्वयम्भूर्याथातथ्यतोऽर्थान्व्यदधाच्छाश्वतीभ्यः समाभ्यः

Line 2The seer, the wise one, all-surpassing and self-existent, orders things according to their nature through the enduring ages.

अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति ये अविद्यामुपासते

Line 1Those devoted only to ignorance or outward action enter blinding darkness.

ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ विद्यायां रताः

Line 2Those delighted only in knowledge are said to enter a darkness deeper still.

अन्यदेवाहुर्विद्ययाऽन्यदाहुरविद्यया

Line 1The wise say that one result comes through knowledge and another through ignorance or action.

इति शुश्रुम धीराणां ये नस्तद्विचचक्षिरे

Line 2So we have heard from discerning teachers who explained this to us.

विद्यां चाविद्यां च यस्तद्वेदोभयं सह

Line 1One who understands knowledge and action together,

अविद्यया मृत्युं तीर्त्वा विद्ययामृतमश्नुते

Line 2crosses death through action and tastes immortality through knowledge.

अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽसम्भूतिमुपासते

Line 1Those devoted only to the unmanifest enter blinding darkness.

ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ सम्भूत्यां रताः

Line 2Those delighted only in the manifest are said to enter a darkness deeper still.

अन्यदेवाहुः संभवादन्यदाहुरसंभवात्

Line 1One result is said to come from the manifest, and another from the unmanifest.

इति शुश्रुम धीराणां ये नस्तद्विचचक्षिरे

Line 2So we have heard from discerning teachers who explained this to us.

संभूतिं च विनाशं च यस्तद्वेदोभयं सह

Line 1One who understands manifestation and dissolution together,

विनाशेन मृत्युं तीर्त्वा संभूत्यामृतमश्नुते

Line 2crosses death through the perishable and tastes immortality through the source of becoming.

हिरण्मयेन पात्रेण सत्यस्यापिहितं मुखम्

Line 1The face of truth is hidden by a brilliant golden covering.

तत्त्वं पूषन्नपावृणु सत्यधर्माय दृष्टये

Line 2O Nourisher, remove it so that one devoted to truth may behold.

पूषन्नेकर्षे यम सूर्य प्राजापत्य व्यूह रश्मीन्समूह तेजः

Line 1O Nourisher, lone seer, controller, Sun and child of the Creator, gather your rays and draw in your blazing light.

यत्ते रूपं कल्याणतमं तत्ते पश्यामि योऽसावसौ पुरुषः सोऽहमस्मि

Line 2Let me behold your most auspicious form; the Person there—that am I.

वायुरनिलममृतमथेदं भस्मान्तं शरीरम्

Line 1Let the breath return to the immortal cosmic air, while this body comes at last to ashes.

ॐ क्रतो स्मर कृतं स्मर क्रतो स्मर कृतं स्मर

Line 2Om. O purposeful mind, remember; remember what has been done. Remember.

अग्ने नय सुपथा राये अस्मान्विश्वानि देव वयुनानि विद्वान्

Line 1O Agni, lead us by the good path toward true abundance; divine knower, you understand every way.

युयोध्यस्मज्जुहुराणमेनो भूयिष्ठां ते नम उक्तिं विधेम

Line 2Remove from us the crooked wrong that misleads; to you we offer our fullest words of reverence.