White Yajurveda — Vajasaneyi Samhita — Chapter 40

VS 40.1

ईशा वास्यम् इदꣳ सर्वं यत् किं च जगत्यां जगत् तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्य स्विद् धनम्

īśā vāsyam idaṁ sarvaṃ yat kiṃ ca jagatyāṃ jagat tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā mā gṛdhaḥ kasya svid dhanam

By the Lord is all this to be covered, whatever moves in the moving world. With that, as given up, you should enjoy; do not covet — whose indeed is the wealth?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

VS 40.2

कुर्वन्न् एवेह कर्माणि जिजीविषेच् छतꣳ समाः एवं त्वयि नान्यथेतो स्ति न कर्म लिप्यते नरे

kurvann eveha karmāṇi jijīviṣec chataṁ samāḥ evaṃ tvayi nānyatheto sti na karma lipyate nare

Just doing works here, one may wish to live a hundred years; thus it is for you, not otherwise than this; work does not cling to a man.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

VS 40.3

असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसावृताः ताꣳस् ते प्रेत्यापि गच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः

asuryā nāma te lokā andhena tamasāvṛtāḥ tāṁs te pretyāpi gacchanti ye ke cātmahano janāḥ

Those worlds named of the asuras are wrapped in blind darkness; to them, after death, go those people who are slayers of the self.

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VS 40.4

अनेजद् एकं मनसो जवीयो नैनद् देवा आप्नुवन् पूर्वम् अर्शत् तद् धावतो न्यान् अत्य् एति तिष्ठत् तस्मिन्न् अपो मातरिश्वा दधाति

anejad ekaṃ manaso javīyo nainad devā āpnuvan pūrvam arśat tad dhāvato nyān aty eti tiṣṭhat tasminn apo mātariśvā dadhāti

Unmoving, one, swifter than mind — the gods did not reach it, as it went ahead; standing still, it outstrips the others who run; in it Mātariśvan places the waters.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

VS 40.5

तद् एजति तन् नैजति तद् दूरे तद् व् अन्तिके तद् अन्तर् अस्य सर्वस्य तद् उ सरवस्यास्य बाह्यतः

tad ejati tan naijati tad dūre tad v antike tad antar asya sarvasya tad u saravasyāsya bāhyataḥ

It moves, it does not move; it is far, and it is near; it is within all this, and it is also outside all this.

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VS 40.6

यस् तु सर्वाणि भूतान्य् आत्मन्न् एवानुपश्यति सर्वभूतेषु चात्मानं ततो न वि चिकित्सति

yas tu sarvāṇi bhūtāny ātmann evānupaśyati sarvabhūteṣu cātmānaṃ tato na vi cikitsati

But he who sees all beings in the self itself, and the self in all beings, thereafter does not waver.

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VS 40.7

यस्मिन्त् सर्वाणि भूतान्य् आत्मैवाभूद् विजानतः तत्र को मोहः कः शोक एकत्वम् अनुपश्यतः

yasmint sarvāṇi bhūtāny ātmaivābhūd vijānataḥ tatra ko mohaḥ kaḥ śoka ekatvam anupaśyataḥ

When all beings have become the self itself for one who discerns — what delusion, what grief is there for him who sees oneness?

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VS 40.8

स पर्य् अगाच् छुक्रम् अकायम् अव्रणम् अस्नाविरꣳ शुद्धम् अपापविद्धम् कविर् मनीषी परिभूः स्वयंभूर् याथातथ्यतो र्थान् व्य् अदधाच् छाश्वतीभ्यः समाभ्यः

sa pary agāc chukram akāyam avraṇam asnāviraṁ śuddham apāpaviddham kavir manīṣī paribhūḥ svayaṃbhūr yāthātathyato rthān vy adadhāc chāśvatībhyaḥ samābhyaḥ

He has gone all around — bright, bodiless, without wound, without sinews, pure, unpierced by evil; a seer, a thinker, encompassing, self-existent, he distributed the objects (of the world) according to their true nature through the unending years.

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VS 40.9

अन्धं तमः प्र विशन्ति ये संभूतिम् उपासते ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ संभूत्याꣳ रताः

andhaṃ tamaḥ pra viśanti ye saṃbhūtim upāsate tato bhūya iva te tamo ya u saṃbhūtyāṁ ratāḥ

Into blind darkness they enter, those who worship coming-into-being; and into darkness greater than that, those who take delight in becoming.

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VS 40.10

अन्यद् एवाहुः संभवाद् अन्यद् आहुर् असंभवात् इति शुश्रुम धीराणां ये नस् तद् विचचक्षिरे

anyad evāhuḥ saṃbhavād anyad āhur asaṃbhavāt iti śuśruma dhīrāṇāṃ ye nas tad vicacakṣire

One thing, they say, (comes) from becoming; another thing, they say, (comes) from non-becoming — so we have heard from the wise, who explained that to us.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

VS 40.11

संभूतिं च विनाशं च यस् तद् वेदोभयꣳ सह विनाशेन मृत्युं तीर्त्वा संभूत्यामृतम् अश्नुते

saṃbhūtiṃ ca vināśaṃ ca yas tad vedobhayaṁ saha vināśena mṛtyuṃ tīrtvā saṃbhūtyāmṛtam aśnute

He who knows both together, becoming and destruction, crossing over death by destruction, attains the immortal by becoming.

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VS 40.12

अन्धं तमः प्र विशन्ति ये विद्याम् उपासते ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ विद्यायाꣳ रताः

andhaṃ tamaḥ pra viśanti ye vidyām upāsate tato bhūya iva te tamo ya u vidyāyāṁ ratāḥ

Into blind darkness they enter, those who worship knowledge; and into darkness greater than that, those who take delight in knowledge.

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VS 40.13

अन्यद् एवाहुर् विद्याया अन्यद् आहुर् अविद्यायाः इति शुश्रुम धीराणां ये नस् तद् विचचक्षिरे

anyad evāhur vidyāyā anyad āhur avidyāyāḥ iti śuśruma dhīrāṇāṃ ye nas tad vicacakṣire

One thing, they say, (comes) from knowledge; another thing, they say, (comes) from ignorance — so we have heard from the wise, who explained that to us.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

VS 40.14

विद्यां चाविद्यां च यस् तद् वेदोभयꣳ सह अविद्यया मृत्युं तीर्त्वा विद्ययामृतम् अश्नुते

vidyāṃ cāvidyāṃ ca yas tad vedobhayaṁ saha avidyayā mṛtyuṃ tīrtvā vidyayāmṛtam aśnute

He who knows both together, knowledge and ignorance, crossing over death by ignorance, attains the immortal by knowledge.

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VS 40.15

वायुर् अनिलम् अमृतम् अथेदं भस्मान्तꣳ शरीरम् ओ३म् क्रतो स्मर क्लिबे स्मर कृतꣳ स्मर

vāyur anilam amṛtam athedaṃ bhasmāntaṁ śarīram o3m krato smara klibe smara kṛtaṁ smara

The breath (is) the wind, the immortal; and this body ends in ashes. Om! O purpose, remember! Remember the deed! O purpose, remember! Remember the deed!

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

VS 40.16

अग्ने नय सुपथा राये अस्मान् विश्वानि देव वयुनानि विद्वान् युयोध्य् अस्मज् जुहुराणम् एनो भुयिष्ठां ते नमüक्तिं विधेम

agne naya supathā rāye asmān viśvāni deva vayunāni vidvān yuyodhy asmaj juhurāṇam eno bhuyiṣṭhāṃ te namaüktiṃ vidhema

O Agni, lead us to wealth by a good path, you god who know all our ways; keep away from us the crooked sin — we would offer you the fullest utterance of homage.

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VS 40.17

हिरण्मयेन पात्रेण सत्यस्यापिहितं मुखम् यो साव् आदित्ये पुरुषः सो साव् अहम् ओ३म् खं ब्रह्म

hiraṇmayena pātreṇa satyasyāpihitaṃ mukham yo sāv āditye puruṣaḥ so sāv aham o3m khaṃ brahma

The face of truth is covered over with a golden vessel. That person yonder in the sun — that (person) am I. Om. Space. Brahman.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition