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Adhyāyas / Sāṅkhya Yogaḥ / verse 46

Mūla — the verse

Gita Press numbering
यावानर्थ उदपाने सर्वतः संप्लुतोदके। तावान्सर्वेषु वेदेषु ब्राह्मणस्य विजानतः
yāvān artha udapāne sarvataḥ samplutodake tāvānsarveṣhu vedeṣhu brāhmaṇasya vijānataḥ
Anuṣṭubh(!!) irregular in source

Translation

Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣya

A Brahmana with realization has that much utility in all the Vedas as a person has in a well when there is a flood all around.

हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda

सब ओर से परिपूर्ण जलराशि के होने पर मनुष्य का छोटे जलाशय में जितना प्रयोजन रहता है? आत्मज्ञानी ब्राह्मण का सभी वेदों में उतना ही प्रयोजन रहता है।।

Pronunciation — Vaamshii

from Vaamshii
यावा नर्थ उदपाने (!!)
सर्वतस् सम् प्लुतो दके
तावान् सर्वेषु वेदेषु
ब्राह्म णस्य वि जानतः
॥ ४६ ॥
Read each split group as one breath-unit; hyphens join pādas kept whole for the meter or a compound word. Symbols: # upadhmānīya (visarga before p/ph), % jihvāmūlīya (visarga before k/kh), ऽ avagraha (an elided a). Full method →

Word by word

padārtha
yāvānwhatever
arthaḥpurpose
uda-pānea well of water
sarvataḥin all respects
sampluta-udakeby a large lake
tāvānthat many
sarveṣhuin all
vedeṣhuVedas
brāhmaṇasyaone who realizes the Absolute Truth
vijānataḥwho is in complete knowledge

Themes

from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad Gītā

Meaning — Questions & Solutions

from Q&A with KnA
2.46The dam and the Veda.

For a Brāhmaṇa — not in the misunderstood sense of a caste, but a native of the realm called Brahman (and Brahman here is not the four-headed creator-god) — who has access to the elevated experience of Supreme Bliss, there are no further Vedic injunctions to follow, nor anything left to learn from them. He cannot be bound by rules or norms; he stands beyond social custom and belongs wholly to the Supreme. He is what we also call an Avadhūta. To one who dwells day and night in that reservoir of ecstasy, of what use is a small vessel of water? The Vedas speak of the Unknown, pray to the Unknown, prescribe the processes (yajñas and sādhanā) and deal with the metaphysical questions. When the Unknown has become Known for such a person, all the prescriptions of the Vedas together make no difference. When the goal-post has been reached, need one warm up and re-read the rule-book?