विषय

ब्रह्म के स्वरूप के विचार का उपदेश।

पदार्थ

(अस्य) इस [सर्वव्यापक ब्रह्म] के (कस्मिन् अङ्गे) कौन से अङ्ग में (तपः) तप [ब्रह्मचर्य आदि तपश्चरण वा ऐश्वर्य] (अधि तिष्ठति) जमकर ठहरता है, (अस्य) इसके (कस्मिन् अङ्गे) किस अङ्ग में (ऋतम्) सत्यशास्त्र [वेद] (अधि) दृढ़ (आहितम्) स्थापित है। (अस्य) इस के (क्व) कहाँ पर (व्रतम्) व्रत [नियम], (क्व) कहाँ पर (श्रद्धा) श्रद्धा [सत्य में दृढ़ विश्वास] (तिष्ठति) स्थित है, (अस्य) इसके (कस्मिन् अङ्गे) कौन से अङ्ग में (सत्यम्) सत्य [यथार्थ कर्म] (प्रतिष्ठितम्) ठहरा हुआ है ॥१॥

भावार्थ

ब्रह्मजिज्ञासु के प्रश्नों का उत्तर आगे मन्त्र ४ में है। अर्थात् सर्वव्यापक, सर्वशक्तिमान्, निराकार परमात्मा की सत्ता मात्र में सब तप, वेद आदि और अग्नि, वायु आदि ठहरे हैं ॥१॥

विषय

'तप, स्त, व्रत, श्रद्धा, सत्य' की स्थिति कहाँ?

पदार्थ

१. इस सप्तम सूक्त में प्रभु को 'स्कम्भ'-सर्वाधाररूप से स्मरण किया गया है। स्थितप्रज्ञ व्यक्ति ही प्रभु का इस रूप में अनुभव करता है। वह स्थितिप्रज्ञ 'अथर्वा [न डॉवाडोल होनेवाला] ही इस सूक्त का ऋषि है। यह अथर्वा 'ब्रह्म-जिज्ञासा' को इसप्रकार उठाता है कि (अस्य) = इस स्कम्भ के (कस्मिन् अङ्गे) = कौन-से अङ्ग [अवयव] में (तपः अधितिष्ठति) = तप की स्थिति है ? (अस्य कस्मिन् अङ्गे) = इसके कौन-से अंग में ऋतम् अध्याहितम्-ऋत स्थापित हुआ है? अस्य क्व-इसके कौन से अवयव में व्रतम्-व्रत और क्व-कहाँ श्रद्धा तिष्ठति-श्रद्धा स्थित है। अस्य-इसके कस्मिन् अङ्गे-किस अङ्ग में सत्यं प्रतिष्ठतम्-सत्य प्रतिष्ठित है।

भावार्थ

ब्रह्मजिज्ञासु प्रभु को 'सर्वाधार स्कम्भ' के रूप में सोचता हुआ जिज्ञासा करता है कि इस स्कम्भ में किस-किस अङ्ग में 'तप, ऋत, व्रत, श्रद्धा व सत्य' की स्थिति है?

भाषार्थ

(अस्य) इस के (कस्मिन् अङ्गे) किस अङ्ग में (तपः) तप (अधि तिष्ठति) अधिष्ठित है, (अस्य) इस के (कस्मिन् अङ्गे) किस अङ्ग में (ऋतम्) यथार्थ नियम (अध्याहितम्) स्थापित है। (अस्य) इसके (क्व) किस अङ्ग में (व्रतम्) व्रत, (क्व) किस अङ्ग में (श्रद्धा) सत्यधारण की भावना (तिष्ठति) स्थित है, (अस्य) इस के (कस्मिन् अङ्गे) किस अङ्ग में (सत्यम्) सत्य (प्रतिष्ठितम्) स्थित है।

Subject

Skambha Sukta

Meaning

This Sukta is the Song of Skambha, Jyeshtha Brahma, the One central, all sustaining, Supreme Spirit- force of the universe which holds, sustains and controls every part of the universe in its place with its function. The Spirit is pure spirit, Akayam, body-less (Yajurveda, 40, 8). Still in the Veda and other Vedic literature, it is described metaphorically as Purusha, the cosmic person whose body is the universe. In this Sukta also, Skambha is metaphorically described as a person with its body parts and their place and function. The whole sukta is a beautiful poem created by cosmic imagination. In what part of Skambha does Tapas, creative heat of will and intention, abide? In which part does Rtam, truth and law of mutability, abide, held and controlled in function? Where the vow of discipline and commitment? Where faith in existence? In which part does Satyam, reality of the constancy base of mutability, abide, held in place?

Subject

Skambhah - Adhyātmam

Translation

In which part of him the austerities (tapas) abide; in which part of him the eternal law (rta) is laid where the vow (vrata), in which part of him resides the faith (sraddhā); in which part of him is the truth (satya) well-established ?

Translation

[N.B.: This hymn is concerned with spirit of the Universe. Divinity in reality has neither body in parts nor limb. He is eternal, bodiless, unbegotten, omnipresent and imperishable. He being Omniscient is not touchhd with any sort of ignorance and hence he has neither body nor nerves, limbs etc. To describe his part is to say the part of the nabulous mass from which the worlds came out. God is the Spirit of that nabulous mass, or golden egg or the tenacious material whole out of which the world came into being. So part of Brahman means the part of that nabulous mass wherein the Divine Power is present as the Creator of the Universe.] What is that part of the Spirit of Universe is which remains seated the heating power that heats the matter. which part of this is the base of the eternal law. Where stands the vow and discipline and in which part of this has been established the truth?

Translation

In what part of Him does austerity reside? What part is the base of Vedic knowledge? Where in Him standeth Holy Duty? Where Faith? Where in what part of Him is Truth implanted?

टिप्पणीः

१−(कस्मिन्) (अङ्गे) अवयवे (तपः) ब्रह्मचर्यादि तपश्चरणम्। ऐश्वर्यम्। सामर्थ्यम् (अस्य) ब्रह्मणः (अधि) दृढम् (तिष्ठति) वर्तते (कस्मिन् अङ्गे) (ऋतम्) सत्यशास्त्रम्। वेदज्ञानम् (अस्य) (अधि) (आहितम्) स्थापितम् (क्व) कुत्र। कस्मिन्नङ्गे (व्रतम्) वरणीयो नियमः (क्व) (श्रद्धा) सत्ये दृढविश्वासः (अस्य) (तिष्ठति) (कस्मिन् अङ्गे) (सत्यम्) यथार्थं कर्म (अस्य) (प्रतिष्ठितम्) दृढतया स्थितम् ॥