Kena Upanishad - Part 2 - Tamil

The second section of கேனோபனிஷத் moves from the first section's inquiry into a subtler correction: Brahman cannot be held as an object of complete conceptual mastery. The student must outgrow both spiritual arrogance and blank uncertainty.

These verses are famous for paradox. That paradox is not confusion; it is pedagogy. It breaks rigid mental habits and prepares the seeker for a mode of knowing that is immediate, lived, and non-objectifying.

யதி³ மன்யஸே ஸுவேதே³தி த³ஹரமேவாபி
நூனம் த்வம் வேத்த² ப்³ரஹ்மணோ ரூபம் ।
யத³ஸ்ய த்வம் யத³ஸ்ய தே³வேஷ்வத² நு
மீமாம்ஸ்யமேவ தே மன்யே விதி³தம் ॥ 1॥

Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
If you think, "I know Brahman well," you know only a small aspect of it. What you take to be Brahman in yourself and in cosmic powers is still to be examined more deeply.

நாஹம் மன்யே ஸுவேதே³தி நோ ந வேதே³தி வேத³ ச ।
யோ நஸ்தத்³வேத³ தத்³வேத³ நோ ந வேதே³தி வேத³ ச ॥ 2॥

Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
I do not think "I know Brahman fully," nor do I think "I do not know it at all." I know it in a different way. Whoever understands this manner of knowing truly knows.

யஸ்யாமதம் தஸ்ய மதம் மதம் யஸ்ய ந வேத³ ஸ: ।
அவிஜ்ஞாதம் விஜானதாம் விஜ்ஞாதமவிஜானதாம் ॥ 3॥

Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
For the one who does not objectify Brahman as fully grasped, it is truly understood. For the one who thinks it is fully objectified, it is not understood. It is not knowable as an object to the wise, but appears objectified only to those without true insight.

ப்ரதிபோ³த⁴விதி³தம் மதமம்ருதத்வம் ஹி விந்த³தே ।
ஆத்மனா விந்த³தே வீர்யம் வித்³யயா விந்த³தேம்ருதம் ॥ 4॥

Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Brahman is rightly understood as that which is known in every act of awareness; through this one attains immortality. Through the Self one gains inner strength, and through true knowledge one realizes the deathless state.

இஹ சேத³வேதீ³த³த² ஸத்யமஸ்தி
ந சேதி³ஹாவேதீ³ன்மஹதீ வினஷ்டி: ।
பூ⁴தேஷு பூ⁴தேஷு விசித்ய தீ⁴ரா:
ப்ரேத்யாஸ்மால்லோகாத³ம்ருதா ப⁴வந்தி ॥ 5॥

Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
If this is realized here in this very life, one's life is fulfilled in truth. If not realized here, the loss is great. The wise, seeing the Self in all beings, transcend limited worldly identity and attain immortality.

॥ இதி கேனோபனிஷதி³ த்³விதீய: க²ண்ட:³ ॥

Translation (பா⁴வார்த²):
Thus ends the second section of the Kena Upanishad.

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