Path

Truth alone triumphs, not falsehood. By truth is laid out the path of the gods, by which the sages, their desires fulfilled, ascend to where the supreme treasure of truth is.

सत्यमेव जयते नानृतं (जयति) सत्येन पन्था विततो देवयानः । येनाक्रमन्त्यृषयो ह्याप्तकामा यत्र तत्सत्यस्य परमं निधानम् ॥ ६॥

Arise! Awake! Having attained your boons, understand them. Sharp as a razor's edge, hard to cross, difficult is that path—so the wise declare.

उत्तिष्ठत जाग्रत प्राप्य वरान्निबोधत । क्षुरस्य धारा निशिता दुरत्यया दुर्गं पथस्तत्कवयो वदन्ति ॥ १४॥

The good is one thing, the pleasant another; both, with different aims, bind a person. Of the two, it goes well for one who takes the good; one who chooses the pleasant misses the goal.

अन्यच्छ्रेयोऽन्यदुतैव प्रेय- स्ते उभे नानार्थे पुरुषँ सिनीतः । तयोः श्रेय आददानस्य साधु भवति हीयतेऽर्थाद्य उ प्रेयो वृणीते ॥ १॥

But others, not knowing this, worship after hearing it from others; they too, devoted to what they have heard, cross beyond death.

अन्ये त्वेवमजानन्तः श्रुत्वान्येभ्य उपासते | तेऽपि चातितरन्त्येव मृत्युं श्रुतिपरायणाः ||१३-२६||

Greater is the toil of those whose minds are set on the unmanifest, for the goal of the unmanifest is reached only with difficulty by embodied beings.

क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम् | अव्यक्ता हि गतिर्दुःखं देहवद्भिरवाप्यते ||१२-५||

Then that state is to be sought, reaching which one does not return again, resolving: 'I take refuge in that primal Person from whom the ancient activity has streamed forth.'

ततः पदं तत्परिमार्गितव्यं यस्मिन्गता न निवर्तन्ति भूयः | तमेव चाद्यं पुरुषं प्रपद्ये | यतः प्रवृत्तिः प्रसृता पुराणी ||१५-४||

Fallen from both, without support, does that person not perish like a scattered cloud, deluded on the path to Brahman, mighty-armed one?

कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति | अप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि ||६-३८||