1. That Supreme Being pervades everything here. That which moves and That which does not move. Therefore, let go and rejoice! Whose wealth is this anyway? (M)
2. If a man wishes to live a hundred years on this earth, he should live performing action. For you, who cherish such a desire and regard yourself as a man, there is no other way by which you can keep work from clinging to you. (N)
3. After leaving their bodies, they who have killed the Self go to the worlds of the Asuras, covered with blinding ignorance. (P)
4. That One, though motionless, is swifter than the mind. The senses can never overtake It, for It ever goes before. Though immovable, It travels faster than those who run. By It the all-pervading air sustains all living beings. (P)
5. The Ᾱtman moves and It moves not; It is far and It is near; It is within all this, and It is also outside all this. (C)
6. He who sees all beings in the Self itself, and the Self in all beings, feels no hatred by virtue of that realization. (G)
7. To the seer, all things have verily become the Self: what delusion, what sorrow, can there be for him who beholds that oneness? (N)
8. He, the Ᾱtman, is all-pervading, bright, bodiless, scatheless, without muscles, pure, unpierced by evils, wise, omniscient, transcendent and self-existing. He alone allotted respective functions and duties to the various eternal Creators. (C)
9. Into a blind darkness they enter who follow after the Ignorance, they as if into a greater darkness who devote themselves to the Knowledge alone. (A)
10. One thing, they say, is verily obtained from vidyā, another thing they say from avidyā; thus we have heard from the wise who explained that to us. (C)
11. Knowledge and ignorance, he who knows the two together crosses death through ignorance and attains life eternal through knowledge. (R)
12. Into blinding darkness enter those who worship the unmanifest and into still greater darkness, as it were, enter those who delight in the manifest! (M)
13. One thing, they say, is verily obtained from the worship of the manifest. Another thing, they say, from the worship of the unmanifest; thus have we heard from the wise who have explained that to us. (C)
14. He who worships the impersonal God and the personal God together, overcomes death through the worship of the personal and obtains immortality through the worship of the impersonal. (C)
15. The door of the Truth is covered by a golden disc. Open it, O Nourisher! Remove it so that I who have been worshipping the Truth may behold It. (N)
"Īśāvāsyopaniṣad had two recensions: Kāņva and Madhyandina. The former recension has the entire eighteen mantras, but in the Mādhyandina, the fifteenth stanza here is the concluding mantra." ~C
16. O Pushan! O Sun, sole traveller of the heavens, controller of all, son of Prajapati, withdraw Thy rays and gather up Thy burning effulgence. Now through Thy Grace I behold Thy blessed and glorious form. The Purusha (Effulgent Being) who dwells within Thee, I am He. (P)
17. May my life-breath go to the all-pervading and immortal Prana, and let this body be burned to ashes. Om! O mind, remember thy deeds! O mind, remember, remember thy deeds! Remember! (P)
18. O Fire, lead us by the good path for the enjoyment of the fruit of our action. You know, O god, all our deeds. Destroy our sin of deceit. We offer, by words, our salutations to you. (N)
A: Aurobindo
C: Chinmayananda
G: Gambhirananda
M: Sri M
N: Nikhilananda
P: Paramananda
R: Radhakrishnan
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