Upadesa Sahasri 10.6 Translations

 idaṃtu satyam mama nāsti vikriyā vikāra-hetur na hi me ’dvayatvataḥ na puṇya-pāpe na ca mokṣa-bandhane na cāsti varṇāśramatā ’śarīrataḥ 

[6] But this, on the other hand, is true—namely, that I am not subject to modification. For there is no cause to occasion a modification in me, since I am one without a second. Merit and demerit, liberation and bondage, do not apply to me, and I do not belong to any caste, since I am bodiless. ~Alston

6. But it is true that I have no change nor any cause of a change as I am without a second. As I do not possess a body I have neither sin nor virtue, neither bondage nor liberation,7neither a caste nor an order of life. ~Jagadananda

10.6 But it is also true that this truth is not mine since my nature is entirely without any duality. For the same reason I am not subject to change nor any cause of change. Therefore, I am neither virtuous nor wicked, neither free nor bound, and being bodiless without caste or stage of life. ~Denton

6. It is true that I have neither change nor any cause ofchange, since I am non-dual. I have neither good nor bad deeds, neither final release nor bondage, neither caste nor stages of life, since I am bodiless. ~Mayeda

Word-by-Word Meaning:

इदम् (idam): This

तु (tu): Indeed / but

सत्यम् (satyam): The truth

मम (mama): For me / my

नास्ति (na asti): Does not exist (na = not + asti = is/exists)

विक्रिया (vikriyā): Modification / change / alteration

विकार-हेतुः (vikāra-hetuḥ): Cause of modification (vikāra = change + hetuḥ = cause)

न (na): Not

हि (hi): Surely / because

मे (me): My / for me

अद्वयत्वतः (advayatvataḥ): Due to my non-dual nature / because of oneness (advaya = non-dual + tvataḥ = due

Word-by-Word Meaning:

न (na): Neither / not

पुण्य-पापे (puṇya-pāpe): Virtue and vice / merit and sin (puṇya = merit + pāpe = sin)

न (na): Nor

च (ca): And

मोक्ष-बन्धने (mokṣa-bandhane): Liberation and bondage (mokṣa = liberation + bandhane = bondage)

न (na): Nor

च (ca): And

अस्ति (asti): There is

वर्णाश्रमता (varṇāśramatā): The status of caste and stage of life (varṇa = social class + āśrama = stage of life + tā = state of being)

अशरीरतः (aśarīrataḥ): Due to being bodiless / without a physical form (a = non + śarīra = body + tataḥ = because of

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My Transcreation in progress

It is my truth that change does not exist for me

and the cause of change is never mine due to my nondual nature.

Thus I possess neither merit nor sin, liberation nor bondage,

social class nor stage of life for I'm without a body.

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