Sacred Texts
Mahānirvāṇa Tantra cover

॥ श्री ॥tantraFor reading

Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 14.113

Traditional

Ullāsas
14
Verses
2517
Minutes
1258
Level
advanced

Ullāsa 14 · Verse 113

तत्त्वज्ञानान्मुक्तिःLiberation by knowledge of the truth

Verse 113

ब्रह्मादितृणपर्यन्तं मायया कल्पितं जगत् । सत्यमेकं परं ब्रह्म विदित्वैवं सुखी भवेत् ॥ ११३ ॥

brahmāditṛṇaparyantaṁ māyayā kalpitaṁ jagat | satyamēkaṁ paraṁ brahma viditvaivaṁ sukhī bhavēt || 113 ||

Translation

From Brahmā down to a blade of grass, the world is imagined by māyā. Knowing that the supreme Brahman alone is real, one becomes happy.

Word by word

brahmā
Brahmā
ādi
(ādi) from
tṛṇa
a blade of grass
paryantaṁ
down to
māyayā
by māyā
kalpitaṁ
imagined
jagat
the world
satyam
real
ēkaṁ
alone
paraṁ
the supreme
brahma
Brahman
viditvā
knowing
ēvaṁ
(evam) thus
sukhī
happy
bhavēt
one becomes

Meaning

The content of that knowledge in its simplest form, and the phrase runs from the highest creator to the least living thing. Happiness (sukhī) is promised as the immediate result.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

See the commentary on verse 112.