Monday, February 23, 2026

B. Isa Selected Translation


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)

 


Translators
A: Aurobindo
C: Chinmayananda
G: Gambhirananda
M: Sri M
N: Nikhilananda
P: Paramananda
R: Radhakrishnan









C. Best Isa Upanishad Translations


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TRANSLATORS
Chinmayananda
Gambhirananda
Gambhirananda
Nikhilananda
Paramananda
Aurobindo
Radhakrishnan
Sri M

D. An Isa Transcreation (wip)

1. Everthing in this ever-changing universe is pervaded by that Supreme Being. Surrender up your world. Be supported by that understanding. Don't seek after material wealth.

2. In this world, perform your rightful work as a means to no end but living out your allotted hundred years or so. No other way exists where actions do not tie a person down.

3. Those worlds blinded by the cover of deep ignorance are named sunless. These killers of the Self reach for such a place of death.


4. Unmoving, nondual, faster than the mind, unreachable by divine senses, surpassing those who chase after despite Its staying still, by That the life force of fire and air supports the activities of all beings.

5. That moves and That does not move. That is far and That is also near. That is within all this and That is also outside all this.

6. Whosoever perceives all beings in the Self alone and the Self in all beings never feels any opposition.

7. As all beings have become the Self alone for the seer who understands, what attachment and what sorrow is there for that one who sees unceasingly such oneness?

8. That is all-pervading and resplendent; formless, unscathed, and without muscle; pure, spotless, and omniscient; transcendent, self-existent, and perfectly allotting all things throughout an eternity of time. 


9. Those who follow avidya fall into its blinding ignorance but those who engage with vidya alone enter as though into a greater darkness.

10. Indeed what they say by knowledge is different and what they say by nescience is different. Thus we have heard from the wise who reveal that to us.

11. There is vidya and avidya and that who knows both together. By avidya, death is overcome and by vidya, immortality is attained.


12. Those who worship the unmanifest fall into a blinding darkness but those who devote themselves to the manifest alone enter as though into a greater darkness.

13. Indeed what they say by the manifest is different and what they say by the unmanifest is different. Thus we have heard from the wise who reveal that to us.

14. There is unmanifest and the manifest and that who knows both together. By the manifest, death is overcome and by the unmanifest, immortality is attained.










E. Transcreating Isa 1, 4-8

Everthing in this ever-changing universe is pervaded by that Supreme Being. Surrender up your world. Be supported by that understanding. Don't seek after material wealth.

Unmoving, nondual, faster than the mind, unreachable by divine senses, surpassing those who chase after despite Its staying still — by That the life force of fire and air supports the activities of all beings.

That moves and That does not move. That is far and That is also near. That is within all this and That is also without all this.

Whosoever perceives all beings in the Self alone and the Self in all beings never feels any opposition.

As all beings have become the Self alone for the seer who understands, what attachment and what sorrow is there for that one who sees unceasingly such oneness?

That is all-pervading and resplendent; formless, unscathed, and without muscle; pure, spotless, and omniscient; transcendent, self-existent, and perfectly allotting all things throughout an eternity of time. 








Saturday, February 21, 2026

SR15: That's

1. Aum/Ohm

In Maya, Brahman is two-faced. In reality, Brahman is one without a second.

Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman are the two sides of That in nonduality.

The truth of Turiyam is beyond Brahman and Atman as quantum physics is to classical mechanics. 


2. On High and Lo

The lower cause is transformational.

The higher cause is apparitional.

Thinking is the lower cause.

Pure consciousness is the highest.

Dreaming is the lowest state. 

Self-awareness is the highest.


3. Ten Revelations

Seeing through a glass wall

isn't bad for the eyes.

There is no snake.

The rope is a vehicle.

That's Maya, Jack.

DNA is the stuff of karma.

Time is like a family tree.

Space is forgiveness.

The god of atheism is theism.

Atma of Brahma is Brahman.


4. What's Apparitional?

The last step

of any particular stage 

is caused by the first step

of the very next stage. 

That's apparitional.


~sr15





Ten Revelations

Seeing through a glass wall
isn't bad for the eyes.
There is no snake.
The rope is a vehicle.
That's Maya, Jack.
DNA is the stuff of karma.
Time is like a family tree.
Space is forgiveness.
The god of atheism is theism.
Atma of Brahma is Brahman.


~rj31

On High and Lo

The lower cause is transformational.

The higher cause is apparitional.

Thinking is the lower cause.

Pure consciousness is the highest.

Dreaming is the lowest state. 

Self-awareness is the highest.


~rj30

Aum/Ohm

In Maya, Brahman is two-faced. In reality, Brahman is one without a second.

Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman are the two sides of That in nonduality.

The truth of Turiyam is beyond Brahman and Atman as quantum physics is to classical mechanics. 


~rj29

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Surrender Awareness


1. My Valentine's Day Ananda

Consciousness is the absolute truth.

Consciousness is such a hard problem thinks science.

Even the highest wave of consciousness studies can never know that sea.

I love I know I am


2. Good News Om

Duality thinks. Nonduality knows.

Our personal default is sadness.

Hallelujah the good news isn't personal. Om.


3. Truly Yours

See through your point of view.

Awareness is pointless.

In spacetime but of nonduality.


4. Satcitananda

ananda cit sat

asi tvam tat

i am that



~sr14






My Valentine's Day Ananda

Consciousness is the absolute truth.

Consciousness is such a hard problem thinks science.

Even the highest wave of consciousness studies can never know that sea.

I love I know I am.




~rj28~