Kurma Purana — Upari Vibhaga — Chapter 9
KuP 2 9.1
ऋषय ऊचुः निष्कलो निर्मलो नित्यो निष्क्रियः परमेश्वरः । तन्नो वद महादेव विश्वरूपः कथं भवान्
ṛṣaya ūcuḥ niṣkalo nirmalo nityo niṣkriyaḥ parameśvaraḥ / tanno vada mahādeva viśvarūpaḥ kathaṃ bhavān
The sages said: The Supreme Lord is without parts, without stain, eternal, without activity. So tell us, Great God, how you are of universal form.
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KuP 2 9.2
ईश्वर उवाच नाहं विश्वो न विश्वं च मामृते विद्यते द्विजाः । मायानिमित्तमत्रास्ति सा चात्मानमपाश्रिता
īśvara uvāca nāhaṃ viśvo na viśvaṃ ca māmṛte vidyate dvijāḥ / māyānimittamatrāsti sā cātmānamapāśritā
The Lord said: I am not the universe, nor does the universe exist apart from me, O twice-born. Māyā is the cause here, and she rests upon the Self.
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KuP 2 9.3
अनादिनिधना शक्तिर्मायाव्यक्तसमाश्रया । तन्निमित्तः प्रपञ्चो ऽयमव्यक्तादभवत् खलु
anādinidhanā śaktirmāyāvyaktasamāśrayā / tannimittaḥ prapañco 'yamavyaktādabhavat khalu
The power called māyā, without beginning or end, abides in the unmanifest; caused by her, this manifold world indeed arose out of the unmanifest.
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KuP 2 9.4
अव्यक्तं कारणं प्राहुरानन्दं ज्योतिरक्षरम् । अहमेव परं ब्रह्म मत्तो ह्यन्यन्न विद्यते
avyaktaṃ kāraṇaṃ prāhurānandaṃ jyotirakṣaram / ahameva paraṃ brahma matto hyanyanna vidyate
They call the unmanifest the cause, bliss, light, imperishable. I alone am the supreme Brahman; other than me nothing exists.
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KuP 2 9.5
तस्मान्मे विश्वरूपत्वं निश्चितं ब्रह्मवादिभिः । एकत्वे च पृथक्त्वे च प्रोक्तमेतन्निदर्शनम्
tasmānme viśvarūpatvaṃ niścitaṃ brahmavādibhiḥ / ekatve ca pṛthaktve ca proktametannidarśanam
Therefore my being of universal form is settled by those who speak of Brahman; this illustration has been given for both oneness and separateness.
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KuP 2 9.6
अहं तत् परमं ब्रह्म परमात्मा सनातनः । अकारणं द्विजाः प्रोक्तो न दोषो ह्यात्मनस्तथा
ahaṃ tat paramaṃ brahma paramātmā sanātanaḥ / akāraṇaṃ dvijāḥ prokto na doṣo hyātmanastathā
I am that supreme Brahman, the eternal supreme Self; I am declared, O twice-born, to be without a cause, and thus there is no fault in the Self.
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KuP 2 9.7
अनन्ता शक्तयो ऽव्यक्ते मायाद्याः संस्थिता ध्रुवाः । तस्मिन् दिवि स्थितं नित्यमव्यक्तं भाति केवलम्
anantā śaktayo 'vyakte māyādyāḥ saṃsthitā dhruvāḥ / tasmin divi sthitaṃ nityamavyaktaṃ bhāti kevalam
Infinite powers, beginning with māyā, stand fixed in the unmanifest; abiding in that heaven, the unmanifest shines alone, eternally.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
KuP 2 9.8
याभिस्तल्लक्ष्यते भिन्नमभिन्नं तु स्वभावतः । एकया मम सायुज्यमनादिनिधनं ध्रुवम्
yābhistallakṣyate bhinnamabhinnaṃ tu svabhāvataḥ / ekayā mama sāyujyamanādinidhanaṃ dhruvam
By these it is marked out as divided, though by its own nature it is undivided; by one (of them) there is union with me, beginningless, endless, unchanging.
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KuP 2 9.9
पुंसो ऽभूदन्यया भूतिरन्यया तत्तिरोहितम् । अनादिमध्यं तिष्ठन्तं युज्यते ऽविद्यया किल
puṃso 'bhūdanyayā bhūtiranyayā tattirohitam / anādimadhyaṃ tiṣṭhantaṃ yujyate 'vidyayā kila
By another there arose the manifestation of the Person; by another that was concealed. Abiding without beginning or middle, he is indeed joined with ignorance.
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KuP 2 9.10
तदेतत् परमं व्यक्तं प्रभामण्डलमण्डितम् । तदक्षरं परं ज्योतिस्तद् विष्णोः परमं पदम्
tadetat paramaṃ vyaktaṃ prabhāmaṇḍalamaṇḍitam / tadakṣaraṃ paraṃ jyotistad viṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padam
This is that supreme manifest (reality), adorned with a circle of radiance; that is the imperishable, the supreme light, that is the highest station of Viṣṇu.
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KuP 2 9.11
तत्र सर्वमिदं प्रोतमोतं चैवाखिलं जगत् । तदेव च जगत् कृत्स्नं तद् विज्ञाय विमुच्यते
tatra sarvamidaṃ protamotaṃ caivākhilaṃ jagat / tadeva ca jagat kṛtsnaṃ tad vijñāya vimucyate
In it all this, the whole world, is woven warp and woof; and that alone is the entire world — having known that, one is released.
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KuP 2 9.12
यतो वाचो निवर्तन्ते अप्राप्य मनसा सह । आनन्दं ब्रह्मणो विद्वान् विभेति न कुतश्चन
yato vāco nivartante aprāpya manasā saha / ānandaṃ brahmaṇo vidvān vibheti na kutaścana
That from which words turn back, not reaching it, together with the mind — knowing that bliss of Brahman, one fears from nothing at all.
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KuP 2 9.13
वेदाहमेतं पुरुषं महान्त- मादित्यवर्णं तमसः परस्तात् । तद् विज्ञाय परिमुच्येत विद्वान् नित्यानन्दी भवति ब्रह्मभूतः
vedāhametaṃ puruṣaṃ mahānta- mādityavarṇaṃ tamasaḥ parastāt / tad vijñāya parimucyeta vidvān nityānandī bhavati brahmabhūtaḥ
I know this great Person, sun-coloured, beyond darkness; knowing that, the wise man would be fully released; he becomes one of eternal bliss, become Brahman.
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KuP 2 9.14
यस्मात् परं नापरमस्ति किञ्चित् यज्ज्योतिषां ज्योतिरेकं दिविस्थम् । तदेवात्मानं मन्यमानो ऽथ विद्वान् आत्मानन्दी भवति ब्रह्मभूतः
yasmāt paraṃ nāparamasti kiñcit yajjyotiṣāṃ jyotirekaṃ divistham / tadevātmānaṃ manyamāno 'tha vidvān ātmānandī bhavati brahmabhūtaḥ
Than which there is nothing higher, nothing lower — that which is the one light of lights, set in heaven: knowing that very thing to be the Self, the wise man becomes one who delights in the Self, become Brahman.
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KuP 2 9.15
तदव्ययं कलिलं गूढदेहं ब्रह्मानन्दममृतं विश्वधाम । वदन्त्येवं ब्राह्मणा ब्रह्मनिष्ठा यत्र गत्वा न निवर्तेत भूयः
tadavyayaṃ kalilaṃ gūḍhadehaṃ brahmānandamamṛtaṃ viśvadhāma / vadantyevaṃ brāhmaṇā brahmaniṣṭhā yatra gatvā na nivarteta bhūyaḥ
That imperishable, dense (thing), whose body is hidden, the bliss of Brahman, immortal, the abode of all — thus speak the brahmins fixed in Brahman, going where one would not return again.
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KuP 2 9.16
हिरण्मये परमाकाशतत्त्वे यदर्चिषि प्रविभातीव तेजः । तद्विज्ञाने परिपश्यन्ति धीरा विभ्राजमानं विमलं व्योम धाम
hiraṇmaye paramākāśatattve yadarciṣi pravibhātīva tejaḥ / tadvijñāne paripaśyanti dhīrā vibhrājamānaṃ vimalaṃ vyoma dhāma
In the golden supreme principle that is space, the radiance that shines forth as it were in the flame — that the steadfast fully behold in knowledge: the shining, spotless sky, (their) abode.
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KuP 2 9.17
ततः परं परिपश्यन्ति धीरा आत्मन्यात्मानमनुभूयानुभूय । स्वयंप्रभः परमेष्ठी महीयान् ब्रह्मानन्दी भगवानीश एषः
tataḥ paraṃ paripaśyanti dhīrā ātmanyātmānamanubhūyānubhūya / svayaṃprabhaḥ parameṣṭhī mahīyān brahmānandī bhagavānīśa eṣaḥ
Beyond that the steadfast fully behold, experiencing the Self in the self again and again: self-luminous, the highest-standing, greater (than all), delighting in the bliss of Brahman — this is the Blessed Lord.
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KuP 2 9.18
एको देवः सर्वभूतेषु गूढः सर्वव्यापी सर्वभूतान्तरात्मा । तमेवैकं ये ऽनुपश्यन्ति धीरास् तेषां शान्तिः शाश्वती नेतरेषाम्
eko devaḥ sarvabhūteṣu gūḍhaḥ sarvavyāpī sarvabhūtāntarātmā / tamevaikaṃ ye 'nupaśyanti dhīrās teṣāṃ śāntiḥ śāśvatī netareṣām
One god, hidden in all beings, all-pervading, the inner Self of all beings — the steadfast who behold that One alone: theirs is everlasting peace, not others'.
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KuP 2 9.19
सर्वाननशिरोग्रीवः सर्वभूतगुहाशयः । सर्वव्यापी च भगवान् न तस्मादन्यदिष्यते
sarvānanaśirogrīvaḥ sarvabhūtaguhāśayaḥ / sarvavyāpī ca bhagavān na tasmādanyadiṣyate
With faces, heads and necks on every side, lying in the cave (of the heart) of all beings, and all-pervading, is the Blessed One; nothing other than He is to be sought.
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KuP 2 9.20
इत्येतदैश्वरं ज्ञानमुक्तं वो मुनिपुङ्गवाः । गोपनीयं विशेषेण योगिनामपि दुर्लभम्
ityetadaiśvaraṃ jñānamuktaṃ vo munipuṅgavāḥ / gopanīyaṃ viśeṣeṇa yogināmapi durlabham
Thus this knowledge of the Lord has been declared to you, O bulls among sages; it is to be kept secret especially, being hard to obtain even for yogins.
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