Translated by P. R. Ramachander
Published by celextel.org
Om ! O Devas, may we hear with our ears what is auspicious;
May we see with our eyes what is auspicious, O ye worthy of worship !
May we enjoy the term of life allotted by the Devas,
Praising them with our body and limbs steady !
May the glorious Indra bless us !
May the all-knowing Sun bless us !
May Garuda, the thunderbolt for evil, bless us !
May Brihaspati grant us well-being !
Om ! Let there be Peace in me !
Let there be Peace in my environment !
Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !
God Brahma said:
I would explain this Upanishad based on inside experience. The personal knowledge “that
this Sun is Brahman” is got by chanting Ajabha Gayatri viz., “Hamsa
Soham.” The ever joyous Paramatma would set in if, after controlling
Prana and Apana by Pranayama, and attaining it (pranayama) by constant and
long practice of Pooraka and Rechaka (macro, micro as well as together) and
making the mind concentrate on the same Brahman in three stages. It would shine
like one thousand suns and would be complete like the shoreless sea. That experience
is neither Samadhi nor Yoga Sidhi and nor mixing of the mind. That is merging
with Brahman as Brahman is always single.
The sages who experience this tell as follows: I know that Purusha with the
shining light who is beyond darkness, who makes shapes, who names them, who
provides for them and who is the brave Purushotama. The one who finds out that
Purusha, who was announced as Para Brahman by Brahma in the primitive times
and who was found out by Indra in all the four directions, attains the deathless
state in this birth itself. There is no other method for salvation.
I am that sun who is the ethereal light. I am that Siva who is that sun of
Knowledge. I am the very clean light of Atma. I am all the light that we know.
Om.
Whoever reads this Upanishad of Atharva-Veda gets the same holy effect as reading
the complete Vedas. He would definitely attain the place of Maha Vishnu.
Here ends the Maha-Vakyopanishad, as contained in the Atharva-Veda.