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Četrta mantra

Mantra Four

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anejad ekaṁ manaso javīyo
nainad devā āpnuvan pūrvam arṣat
tad dhāvato ’nyān atyeti tiṣṭhat
tasminn apo mātariśvā dadhāti
anejad ekaṁ manaso javīyo
nainad devā āpnuvan pūrvam arṣat
tad dhāvato ’nyān atyeti tiṣṭhat
tasminn apo mātariśvā dadhāti

Synonyms

Synonyms

anejat — nepremičen; ekam — eden; manasaḥ — kot um; javīyaḥ — hitrejši; na — ne; enat — temu Vsevišnjemu Gospodu; devāḥ — polbogovi, kot so Indra in drugi; āpnuvan — se lahko približajo; pūrvam — v ospredju; arṣat — hitro premikajoč; tat — On; dhāvataḥ — tiste, ki tečejo; anyān — druge; atyeti — prehiti; tiṣṭhat — ki ostaja na enem kraju; tasmin — v Njem; apaḥ — dež; mātariśvā — bogovi, ki nadzirajo veter in dež; dadhāti — dobavljajo.

anejat — fixed; ekam — one; manasaḥ — than the mind; javīyaḥ — more swift; na — not; enat — this Supreme Lord; devāḥ — the demigods like Indra, etc.; āpnuvan — can approach; pūrvam — in front; arṣat — moving quickly; tat — He; dhāvataḥ — those who are running; anyān — others; atyeti — surpasses; tiṣṭhat — remaining in one place; tasmin — in Him; apaḥ — rain; mātariśvā — the gods who control the wind and rain; dadhāti — supply.

Translation

Translation

Čeprav se Gospod, Božanska Osebnost, ne premakne iz Svojega prebivališča, je hitrejši od misli in vsakogar prehiti. Mogočni polbogovi se Mu ne morejo približati. Čeprav je na enem mestu, nadzira tiste, ki nas oskrbujejo z zrakom in dežjem. Odličnejši je od vsakogar.

Although fixed in His abode, the Personality of Godhead is swifter than the mind and can overcome all others running. The powerful demigods cannot approach Him. Although in one place, He controls those who supply the air and rain. He surpasses all in excellence.

Purport

Purport

Celo največji filozofi ne morejo z razglabljanjem razumeti Vsevišnjega Gospoda, Absolutne Božanske Osebnosti. Spoznajo Ga lahko samo bhakte, ki so prejeli Njegovo milost. V Brahma-saṁhiti (5.34) piše, da lahko filozof, ki ni Gospodov bhakta, na stotine milijonov let potuje po vesolju s hitrostjo vetra ali misli, pa bo na koncu spoznal, da je Absolutna Resnica še vedno neskončno daleč. Brahma-saṁhitā (5.37) nato opisuje, da se Vsevišnji Gospod, Absolutna Božanska Osebnost, večno zabava v Svojem božanskem prebivališču Goloki, hkrati pa lahko po Svojih nedoumljivih energijah kljub temu seže v vsak predel Svojega stvarstva. Viṣṇu Purāṇa primerja Njegove moči s toploto in svetlobo, ki se širita od ognja – tako Absolutna Božanska Osebnost vsepovsod širi svoje raznolike energije, čeprav se ne premakne iz Svojega duhovnega prebivališča.

Through mental speculation, even the greatest philosopher cannot know the Supreme Lord, who is the Absolute Personality of Godhead. He can be known only by His devotees through His mercy. In the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.34) it is stated that even if a nondevotee philosopher travels through space at the speed of the wind or the mind for hundreds of millions of years, he will still find that the Absolute Truth is far, far away from him. The Brahma-saṁhitā (5.37) further describes that the Absolute Personality of Godhead has His transcendental abode, known as Goloka, where He remains and engages in His pastimes, yet by His inconceivable potencies He can simultaneously reach every part of His creative energy. In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa His potencies are compared to the heat and light that emanate from a fire. Although situated in one place, a fire can distribute its light and heat for some distance; similarly, the Absolute Personality of Godhead, although fixed in His transcendental abode, can diffuse His different energies everywhere.

   Čeprav ima Gospod nešteto energij, jih lahko razdelimo v tri glavne skupine: notranja, mejna in zunanja. Vsaka od teh skupin ima še na stotine in milijone razdelkov. Vladajoče polbogove, ki so pooblaščeni za nadzorovanje in razdeljevanje naravnih virov, kot so zrak, svetloba in dež, uvrščamo v Gospodovo mejno energijo. V to skupino skupaj z ljudmi spadajo tudi nižja bitja. Materialni svet je stvaritev Gospodove zunanje energije, duhovno nebo, kjer je Božje kraljestvo, pa se širi iz Njegove notranje energije.

Although His energies are innumerable, they can be divided into three principal categories: the internal potency, the marginal potency and the external potency. There are hundreds and millions of subheadings to each of these categories. The dominating demigods who are empowered to control and administer such natural phenomena as air, light and rain are all classified within the marginal potency of the Absolute Person. Lesser living beings, including humans, also belong to the Lord’s marginal potency. The material world is the creation of the Lord’s external potency. And the spiritual sky, where the kingdom of God is situated, is the manifestation of His internal potency.

   Tako so Gospodove energije navzoče vsepovsod. Čeprav se Gospod ne razlikuje od njih, jih ne bi smeli zamenjevati z Vrhovno Resnico. Prav tako si ne bi smeli napačno predstavljati, da je Vsevišnji Gospod brezosebno povsod porazdeljen ali da izgubi Svojo osebnost. Ljudje smo vajeni sklepati po svojih zmožnostih razumevanja, Vsevišnji Gospod pa ni podvržen našim omejenim predstavam. Prav zato nas Upaniṣade opozarjajo, da se Gospodu nihče ne more približati s svojo omejeno močjo.

Thus the different energies of the Lord are present everywhere. Although the Lord and His energies are nondifferent, one should not mistake these energies for the Supreme Truth. Nor should one wrongly consider that the Supreme Lord is distributed everywhere impersonally or that He loses His personal existence. Men are accustomed to reaching conclusions according to their capacity for understanding, but the Supreme Lord is not subject to our limited capacity for understanding. It is for this reason that the Upaniṣads warn us that no one can approach the Lord by his own limited potency.

   V Bhagavad-gīti (10.2) Gospod pravi, da Ga celo veliki ṛṣiji in sure ne poznajo. Asure tako nimajo prav nobene možnosti, da bi razumeli Gospoda. Četrta mantra Śrī Īśopaniṣad zelo jasno nakazuje, da je Absolutna Resnica končno Absolutna Oseba, sicer ne bi po nepotrebnem opisovala številnih podrobnosti, ki dokazujejo Njegove osebne lastnosti.

In the Bhagavad-gītā (10.2) the Lord says that not even the great ṛṣis and suras can know Him. And what to speak of the asuras, for whom there is no question of understanding the ways of the Lord? This fourth mantra of Śrī Īśopaniṣad very clearly suggests that the Absolute Truth is ultimately the Absolute Person; otherwise there would have been no need to mention so many details in support of His personal features.

   Čeprav imajo posamezni delci Gospodovih energij vse Gospodove lastnosti, imajo omejeno območje delovanja in so zato omejeni. Delci niso celoti nikoli enaki, zato ne morejo doumeti Gospodove celotne moči. Nespametna in nevedna živa bitja, ki so pod vplivom materialne energije in so samo Gospodovi delci, poskušajo ugibati o Gospodovem transcendentalnem položaju. Śrī Īśopaniṣad nas opozarja, da je prazno razglabljanje o Gospodovi osebnosti jalovo početje. Človek bi si moral pridobiti znanje o Transcendenci od tistega, ki jo edini resnično pozna – od samega Gospoda, ki je vrhovni izvor Ved.

Although the individual parts and parcels of the Lord’s potencies have all the symptoms of the Lord Himself, they have limited spheres of activity and are therefore all limited. The parts and parcels are never equal to the whole; therefore they cannot appreciate the Lord’s full potency. Under the influence of material nature, foolish and ignorant living beings who are but parts and parcels of the Lord try to conjecture about the Lord’s transcendental position. Śrī Īśopaniṣad warns of the futility of trying to establish the identity of the Lord through mental speculation. One should try to learn of the Transcendence from the Lord Himself, the supreme source of the Vedas, for the Lord alone has full knowledge of the Transcendence.

   Vsakemu delcu Popolne Celote je dodeljena določena moč, da bi lahko deloval po Gospodovi volji. Ko živo bitje pozabi na svojo dolžnost, je pod vplivom māye, slepila. Zato nas Śrī Īśopaniṣad od samega začetka opozarja, naj dosledno igramo vlogo, ki nam jo je namenil Gospod. To ne pomeni, da duša nima svoje volje, ker pa je Gospodov delec, se mora ravnati tudi po Njegovi. Kadar svojo dejavno naravo izražamo pravilno in pametno ter se zavedamo, da je vse Gospodova energija, lahko oživimo svojo izvorno zavest, ki smo jo izgubili zaradi druženja z zunanjo energijo (māyo).

Every part and parcel of the Complete Whole is endowed with some particular energy to act according to the Lord’s will. When the part-and-parcel living entity forgets his particular activities under the Lord’s will, he is considered to be in māyā, illusion. Thus from the very beginning Śrī Īśopaniṣad warns us to be very careful to play the part designated for us by the Lord. This does not mean that the individual soul has no initiative of his own. Because he is part and parcel of the Lord, he must partake of the initiative of the Lord as well. When a person properly utilizes his initiative, or active nature, with intelligence, understanding that everything is the Lord’s potency, he can revive his original consciousness, which was lost due to association with māyā, the external energy.

   Vse moči in sposobnosti prejmemo od Gospoda, zato jih smemo uporabiti le za izpolnjevanje Njegove volje. Kdor ponižno služi s takim odnosom, lahko spozna Gospoda. Popolno znanje pomeni poznati Gospoda z vsemi Njegovimi značilnostmi in energijami ter vedeti, kako te delujejo po Njegovi volji. O teh stvareh Gospod govori v Bhagavad-gīti, ki je bistvo vseh Upaniṣad.

All power is obtained from the Lord; therefore each particular power must be utilized to execute the will of the Lord and not otherwise. The Lord can be known by one who has adopted such a submissive service attitude. Perfect knowledge means knowing the Lord in all His features, knowing His potencies and knowing how these potencies work by His will. These matters are described by the Lord in the Bhagavad-gītā, the essence of all the Upaniṣads.