Shvetashvatara Upanishad Verse 11

Shvetashvatara Upanishad Verse 11

Sanskrit

ज्ञात्वा देवं सर्वपाशापहानिः
क्षीणैः क्लेशैर्जन्ममृत्युप्रहाणिः ।
तस्याभिध्यानात्तृतीयं देहभेदे
विश्वैश्वर्यं केवल आप्तकामः ॥ ११॥

Transliteration

jñātvā devaṃ sarvapāśāpahāniḥ kṣīṇaiḥ kleśairjanmamṛtyuprahāṇiḥ | tasyābhidhyānāttṛtīyaṃ dehabhede viśvaiśvaryaṃ kevala āptakāmaḥ || 11 ||

Translation

By knowing God, all fetters fall off; with the waning of ignorance, birth and death cease. By meditating on Him, one reaches the third state (the realm of Brahman) at the dissolution of the body—where all lordly power resides, where one is solitary and has all desires fulfilled.