11. Isha Upanishad | Mantras 15 - 16 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

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The Isha Upanishad (Sanskrit: ईशोपनिषद्, IAST: Īśopaniṣad), also known as Shri Ishopanishad, Ishavasya Upanishad, or Vajasaneyi Samhita Upanishad, is one of the shortest Upanishads, embedded as the final chapter (adhyāya) of the Shukla Yajurveda. It is a Mukhya (primary, principal) Upanishad, and is known in two recensions, called Kanva (VSK) and Madhyandina (VSM). The Upanishad is a brief poem, consisting of 17 or 18 verses, depending on the recension.

It is a key scripture of the Vedanta sub-schools, and an influential Śruti to diverse schools of Hinduism. It is the 40th chapter of Yajurveda. The name of the text derives from its incipit, īśā vāsyam, "enveloped by the Lord", or "hidden in the Lord (Self)". The text discusses the Atman (Self) theory of Hinduism, and is referenced by both Dvaita (dualism) and Advaita (non-dualism) sub-schools of Vedanta.

It is classified as a "poetic Upanishad" along with Kena, Katha, Svetasvatara and Mundaka by Paul Deussen (1908).

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0:00.0	Oom Purnam,
0:07.0	Poo, Purnam, Daph, Purnamidam, Purnat, Purnamudhāsa, Purnasya, Purnam Adaya,
0:18.0	Purnam eva, Shishiath, Oam Shant, Amaday, Purnamayvah Vashita.
0:21.6	Ome, shantay, shantay, shantay.
0:26.6	Ome, that supreme Brahman is infinite, and this condition Brahman is infinite.
0:33.6	The infinite condition Brahman proceeds from the infinite supreme Brahman.
0:39.5	Then through knowledge, realizing the infinitude of the infinite condition brahman,
0:44.2	it remains as the infinite unconditioned Brahman alone. Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:55.0	So we are studying the Isha Uponition.
0:59.0	With such a long gap, people might have forgotten.
1:02.0	What are we doing exactly?
1:03.0	We are studying the Isha Upanishan.
1:05.0	And that Upanishad, so a small Upanishad, it has 18 mantras.
1:12.3	And out of this 18 mantras, we have done more than, we have gone through more than half of them.
1:18.1	Today I think we're going to take up the 15th of the 18 mantras.
1:23.7	So a very quick look back upon what the path that we have covered.
1:29.3	Really the first mantra of the Upanishad, it's the beginning and it's really the conclusion of the Upanishan, it's also the high point of the Upanishan.
1:38.3	That too, just the first line of the first mantra of the Upanishad.
1:41.3	Isha wasiamidamidam Sarvam, Yatkincha, Jagatyaam, Jaggat.
1:46.0	This entire world of temporary, transient entities, it is all to be covered by Isha, by God, by the divine, by the transcendent, by the supreme.
2:01.6	And Shankaracharya there, what he does there is he says that in all these things there
2:07.6	is one underlying reality.
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