आरुणिकाख्योपनिषत्ख्यातसंन्यासिनोऽमलाः । यत्प्रबोधाद्यान्ति मुक्तिं तद्रामब्रह्म मे गतिः ॥ ॐ आप्यायन्त्विति शान्तिः ॥ ॐ आरुणिः प्राजापत्यः प्रजापतेर्लोकं जगाम । तं गत्वोवाच । केन भगवन्कर्माण्यशेषतो विसृजामीति । तं होवाच प्रजापतिस्तव पुत्रान्भ्रातृइन्बन्ध्वादीञ्छिखां यज्ञोपवीतं यागं स्वाध्यायं भूर्लोकभुवर्लोकस्वर्लोकमहर्लोकजनोलोकतपोलोकसत्यलोकं चातलतलातलवितलसुतलरसातलमहातलपातालं ब्रह्माण्डं च विसृजेत् । दण्डमाच्छादनं चैव कौपीनं च परिग्रहेत् । शेषं विसृजेदिति ॥ १॥ गृहस्थो ब्रह्मचारी वा वानप्रस्थो वा उपवीतं भूमावप्सु वा विसृजेत् । लौकिकाग्नीनुदराग्नौ समारोपयेत् । गायत्रीं च स्ववाचाग्नौ समारोपयेत् । कुटीचरो ब्रह्मचारी कुटुंबं विसृजेत् । पात्रं विसृजेत् । पवित्रं विसृजेत् । दण्डाॅंलोकांश्च विसृजेदिति होवाच । अत उर्ध्वममन्त्रवदाचरेत् । ऊर्ध्वगमनं विसृजेत् । औषधवदशनमाचरेत् । त्रिसन्ध्यादौ स्नानमाचरेत् । सन्धिं समाधावात्मन्याचरेत् । सर्वेषु वेदेष्वारण्यकमावर्तयेदुपनिषदमावर्तयेदुपनिषदमावर्तय् एदिति ॥ २॥ खल्वहं ब्रह्मसूचनात्सूत्रं ब्रह्मसूत्रमहमेव विद्वान्त्रिवृत्सूत्रं त्यजेद्विद्वान्य एवं वेद संन्यस्तं मया संन्यस्तं मया संन्यस्तं मयेति त्रिरुक्त्वाभयं सर्वभूतेभ्यो मत्तः सर्वं प्रवर्तते । सखामागोपायोजः सखायोऽसीन्द्रस्य वज्रोऽसि वार्त्रघ्नः शर्म मे भव यत्पापं तन्निवारयेति । अनेन मन्त्रेण कृतं वाइणवं दण्डं कौपीनं परिग्रहेदौषधवदशनमाचरेदौषधवदशनं प्राश्नीयाद्यथालाभमश्नीयात् । ब्रह्मचर्यमहिंसा चापरिग्रहं च सत्यं च यत्नेन हे रक्षत हे रक्षत हे रक्षत इति ॥ ३॥ अथातः परमहंसपरिव्राजकानामासनशयनादिकं भूमौ ब्रह्मचर्यं मृत्पात्रमलाम्बुपात्रं दारुपात्रं वा यतीनां कामक्रोधहर्षरोषलोभमोहदम्भदर्पेच्छासूयाममत्वाहङ्क् आरादीनपि परित्यजेत् । वर्षासु ध्रुवशीलोऽष्टौ मासानेकाकी यतिश्चरेत् द्वावेव वा विचरेद्द्वावेव वा विचरेदिति ॥ ३॥ स खल्वेवं यो विद्वान्सोपनयनादूर्ध्वमेतानि प्राग्वा त्यजेत् । पित्रं पुत्रमग्न्युपवीतं कर्म कलत्रं चान्यदपीह यतयो भिक्षार्थं ग्रामं प्रविशन्ति पाणिपात्रमुदरपात्रं वा । ॐ हि ॐ हि ॐ हीत्येतदुपनिषदं विन्यसेत् ॥ खल्वेतदुपनिषदं विद्वान्य एवं वेद पालाशं बैल्वमाश्वत्थमौदुम्बरं दण्डं मौञ्जीं मेखलां यज्ञोपवीतं च त्यक्त्वा शूरो य एवं वेद । तद्विष्णोः परमं पदं सदा पश्यन्ति सूरयः । दिवीव चक्षुराततम् । तद्विप्रासो विपन्यवो जागृवांसः समिन्धते । विष्णोर्यत्परमं पदमिति । एवं निर्वाणानुशासनं वेदानुशासनं वेदानुशासनमिति ॥ ५॥ ॐ आप्यायन्त्विति शान्तिः ॥ इति सामवेदीयारुणिकोपनिषत्समाप्ता ॥
Om ! Let my limbs and speech, Prana, eyes, ears, vitality And all the senses grow in strength. All existence is the Brahman of the Upanishads. May I never deny Brahman, nor Brahman deny me. Let there be no denial at all: Let there be no denial at least from me. May the virtues that are proclaimed in the Upanishads be in me, Who am devoted to the Atman; may they reside in me. 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 ! 1. Om. Aruna’s son went to the sphere of Brahma, the Creator, and reaching there said, “Lord, in what way can I relinquish work altogether ?” Brahma said to him: You must give up your sons, brothers, friends, and the rest, your hair-tuft and the holy thread, your sacrifices and books regulating them, your scriptures; must give up the (seven upper) spheres entitled Bhur, Bhuvar, Svar, Mahar, Jana, Tapas, and Satya, and the (seven nether) spheres, viz., Atala, Patala, Vitala, Sutala, Rasatala, Talatala and Mahatala, together with the (whole) universe; and must take on the staff and the scanty clothing of the Sannyasin; you must renounce everything else, aye, everything else. 2. The householder, or the Brahmachari, or the Vanaprashta should commit the fires that lead to the different spheres to the fire that is in the stomach, and consign the sacred Mantra, Gayatri, to the fire that is in his own speech, should throw the holy thread on the ground or into water. The Kutichara living a Brahmachari’s life should give up his relatives, and discard his begging bowl, and the straining-cloth, should give up his triple staves, and the fires that lead to particular spheres. (So said Prajapati). Henceforward he should behave like one who has got no Mantra to repeat, should give up the desire to go to the higher spheres, bathe at the beginning of the three meeting-points of the day, viz., morning, noon, and evening, should effect a union with his Atman through the highest concentration, and from amongst the (whole range of the) Vedas should repeat only the Aranyakas, only the Upanishads, aye, nothing but the Upanishads. 3. Verily I am Brahman, the Sutra; the Sutra is Brahman for It originates (the cosmos); I myself am the sutra because I am a man of realisation – the wise one who has realised this should give up his triple holy thread. “I have renounced, I have renounced, I have renounced” – uttering this thrice he should declare – “From me there is no fear (in word, thought, or deed) to any being, for from me everything has proceeded”. Uttering the Mantra – “That art my friend, so protect me (from cows, serpents, etc.), thou art strength and my friend, in all seen and unseen danger thou art the Thunder of the Lord of the Universe”, etc., he should hold up high the bamboo staff and put on the loin-cloth. He should take food as if it were medicine, aye, as if it were medicine. Carefully guard (oh, ye all who are concerned) your chastity (in thought, word and deed), non-injury, non-acceptance of (superfluous) gifts, non-thieving and truthfulness – guard them by all means, aye, do guard ! 4. Now then the duties of the highest class of itinerant monks – the Paramahamsa Parivrajakas (are as follows): They must sit and lie down on the ground. Those having already taken the vow of chastity etc., should use an earthen bowl or one made of gourd, or a wooden bowl; they should give up lust anger, avarice, infatuation, ostentation, haughtiness, jealousy, attachment to objects, egotism, falsehood and the like. The Sannyasin should stay at one place during the four months of the rainy season and during the remaining eight months wander alone, or with a single companion, aye, a single companion. 5. Verily one who has realised the (true) import of the Vedas may give up those things (previously enumerated) after the investiture with the holy thread, or he may do so even before that ceremony – (give up) his father, son, his sacrificial fires, and the holy thread, his works, his wife and all else that he may possess. Sannyasins enter a village for begging purposes only, with their palms or their stomach as the receptacle for food. Uttering “Om” “Om” “Om”, they should mentally place this Mantra, the Upanishad, in the different parts of their body. He who realises the Truth in this manner is really the wise one. He who knows this (and is a Brahmachari taking on the monastic vow) should give up the staff made of the wood of the Palasha (Dhak), Bilva (Marmelos), or Audumbara (Fig) trees, his skin and girdle and the holy thread, etc., and thus be a hero. “That supreme state of the all-pervading Deity the sages realise for all time like the eye pervading from one end of the sky to the other.” “Sages purged of all impurities like anger etc., who have awakened from the sleep (of ignorance), kindle that Truth (in the minds of the enquirers), that supreme state of the all-pervading Deity.” Such indeed is the injunction of the scriptures leading to liberation – the injunction of the Vedas, aye, of the Vedas. Om ! Let my limbs and speech, Prana, eyes, ears, vitality And all the senses grow in strength. All existence is the Brahman of the Upanishads. May I never deny Brahman, nor Brahman deny me. Let there be no denial at all: Let there be no denial at least from me. May the virtues that are proclaimed in the Upanishads be in me, Who am devoted to the Atman; may they reside in me. 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 ! Here ends the Arunyupanishad, included in the Sama-Veda.
āruṇikākhyopaniṣatkhyātasaṃnyāsino'malāḥ । yatprabodhādyānti muktiṃ tadrāmabrahma me gatiḥ ॥ oṃ āpyāyantviti śāntiḥ ॥ oṃ āruṇiḥ prājāpatyaḥ prajāpaterlokaṃ jagāma । taṃ gatvovāca । kena bhagavankarmāṇyaśeṣato visṛjāmīti । taṃ hovāca prajāpatistava putrānbhrātṛinbandhvādīñchikhāṃ yajñopavītaṃ yāgaṃ svādhyāyaṃ bhūrlokabhuvarlokasvarlokamaharlokajanolokatapolokasatyalokaṃ cātalatalātalavitalasutalarasātalamahātalapātālaṃ brahmāṇḍaṃ ca visṛjet । daṇḍamācchādanaṃ caiva kaupīnaṃ ca parigrahet । śeṣaṃ visṛjediti ॥ 1॥ gṛhastho brahmacārī vā vānaprastho vā upavītaṃ bhūmāvapsu vā visṛjet । laukikāgnīnudarāgnau samāropayet । gāyatrīṃ ca svavācāgnau samāropayet । kuṭīcaro brahmacārī kuṭuṃbaṃ visṛjet । pātraṃ visṛjet । pavitraṃ visṛjet । daṇḍāॅṃlokāṃśca visṛjediti hovāca । ata urdhvamamantravadācaret । ūrdhvagamanaṃ visṛjet । auṣadhavadaśanamācaret । trisandhyādau snānamācaret । sandhiṃ samādhāvātmanyācaret । sarveṣu vedeṣvāraṇyakamāvartayedupaniṣadamāvartayedupaniṣadamāvartay editi ॥ 2॥ khalvahaṃ brahmasūcanātsūtraṃ brahmasūtramahameva vidvāntrivṛtsūtraṃ tyajedvidvānya evaṃ veda saṃnyastaṃ mayā saṃnyastaṃ mayā saṃnyastaṃ mayeti triruktvābhayaṃ sarvabhūtebhyo mattaḥ sarvaṃ pravartate । sakhāmāgopāyojaḥ sakhāyo'sīndrasya vajro'si vārtraghnaḥ śarma me bhava yatpāpaṃ tannivārayeti । anena mantreṇa kṛtaṃ vāiṇavaṃ daṇḍaṃ kaupīnaṃ parigrahedauṣadhavadaśanamācaredauṣadhavadaśanaṃ prāśnīyādyathālābhamaśnīyāt । brahmacaryamahiṃsā cāparigrahaṃ ca satyaṃ ca yatnena he rakṣata he rakṣata he rakṣata iti ॥ 3॥ athātaḥ paramahaṃsaparivrājakānāmāsanaśayanādikaṃ bhūmau brahmacaryaṃ mṛtpātramalāmbupātraṃ dārupātraṃ vā yatīnāṃ kāmakrodhaharṣaroṣalobhamohadambhadarpecchāsūyāmamatvāhaṅk ārādīnapi parityajet । varṣāsu dhruvaśīlo'ṣṭau māsānekākī yatiścaret dvāveva vā vicareddvāveva vā vicarediti ॥ 3॥ sa khalvevaṃ yo vidvānsopanayanādūrdhvametāni prāgvā tyajet । pitraṃ putramagnyupavītaṃ karma kalatraṃ cānyadapīha yatayo bhikṣārthaṃ grāmaṃ praviśanti pāṇipātramudarapātraṃ vā । oṃ hi oṃ hi oṃ hītyetadupaniṣadaṃ vinyaset ॥ khalvetadupaniṣadaṃ vidvānya evaṃ veda pālāśaṃ bailvamāśvatthamaudumbaraṃ daṇḍaṃ mauñjīṃ mekhalāṃ yajñopavītaṃ ca tyaktvā śūro ya evaṃ veda । tadviṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padaṃ sadā paśyanti sūrayaḥ । divīva cakṣurātatam । tadviprāso vipanyavo jāgṛvāṃsaḥ samindhate । viṣṇoryatparamaṃ padamiti । evaṃ nirvāṇānuśāsanaṃ vedānuśāsanaṃ vedānuśāsanamiti ॥ 5॥ oṃ āpyāyantviti śāntiḥ ॥ iti sāmavedīyāruṇikopaniṣatsamāptā ॥