Intermediate Exercises

This page presents the text and pronunciation of short Vedic expressions—perfect practice for the intermediate Sanskrit reader 

sarvaṃ khalu idaṃ brahma

All this is Brahm—Totality.

—Chāndōgya Upaniśhad 3.14.1

prakṛitiṃ svāmavaṣṭabhya visṛjāmi punaḥ punaḥ

Curving back upon My own Nature, I create again and again.

—Bhagavad Gītā 9.8

nistraiguṇyō bhavārjuna

Be without the three guṇas, O Arjuna.

—Bhagavad Gītā 2.45

satyam bruyat priyam bruyat

Speak the sweet truth.

— Agni Purāṇa 371.8

dvitiyadvai bhayam bhavati

Certainly fear is born of duality.

—Bṛihadāraṇyaka Upaniśhad 1.4.2

mayadhyakshena prakritih

Under my presidentship Prakṛiti, all of Nature, creates both
the moving and unmoving.

—Bhagavad Gītā 9.10

heyam duhkham anagatam

Avert the danger that has not yet come.

—Yoga Sutra 2.16

yogasthah kuru karmanı

Established in Yoga (the Self), perform action.

—Bhagavad Gita 2.48

pragyanam brahma

Fully awake self-referral dynamism (of the universe) … is Brahman

— Aitareya Upaniśhad 3.1.3

Nivartadhvam

Retire.

Rk Veda 10.19.1

Anoraniyan Mahatomahian

Smaller than the smallest is bigger than the biggest.

Katha Upanishad 1.2.20

Brahmavit Brahmaiva Bhavati

The knower of Brahman is Brahman itself.

Mundaka Upanishad 3.2.9

ekam eva dvitiyam

One Reality without a second

Chandogya Upanishad 6.2.1

 

mantra brahmamayor veda nama dheyam

Mantra and brahmana together constitute Veda.

Apastamba Shrauta Sutram 24.1.31

Purnam adah Purnam idam

That is full, this is full. From fullness, fullness comes out. Taking fullness from fullness, what remains is fullness.

Introductory verse for Upanishads of Shukla Yajur-Veda

aham brahmasmi

I am totality

Bṛihadāraṇyaka Upaniṣhad 1.4.10

tattvamasi

Thou art that.

Chandogya Upanishad 6.11

anandaddhyeva verse

Out of bliss these beings are born,
In bliss they are sustained,
And to bliss they go and merge again.

— Taittirīya Upaniṣhad 3.6.1

anandamayo bhyasat

Bliss becomes blissful through practice.

Brahma sutra 1.1.12

asato ma sad gamaya verse

From non-existence lead us to existence.
From darkness lead us to light.
From death lead us to immortality.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28

atma vare verse

That Atma alone, that simplest form of awareness alone,
is worthy of seeing, hearing, contemplating, and realizing.

— Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad 2.4.5

bhagavad gita kincid adhita verse

Even a little study of the Bhagavad-Gita,
Like a drop of the flow of nectar, is sufficient for enlightenment.

Shankara, Bhaja Govindam 20

eko 'ham bahusyam

I am one, may I be many.

Upanishads

nivartadhvam

Retire.

— Rk Veda 10.19.1

richo akshare verse

The verses of the Veda exist in the collapse of fullness, the kshara of ‘A’, in the transcendental field, the Self, in which reside all the devas, the impulses of creative intelligence, the laws of nature responsible for the entire manifest universe….

Rk Veda 1.164.39

 

satyam eva jayate

Truth alone triumphs.

Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.6

shivam shantam verse

The peaceful, the blissful, the undivided is thought to be the fourth;
that is the Self. That is to be known.

—Nrisimhottaratapaniya Upanishad 1

vasudhaiva kutumbakam

The world is my family.

—Mahà Upanishad 6.71

vedo 'ham

I am the Veda.

—Dēvi Upanishad 1

yatha pinde verse

As is the atom, so is the universe; as is the body, so is the cosmic body.

yo jagara verse

He who is awake, the richas seek him out.

—Rk Veda 5.44.14

yogasthah kuru karmanı

Established in Yoga (the Self), perform action.

—Bhagavad Gita 2.48

tat srishtva verse

Having created the creation, the Creator—Cosmic Creative Intelligence—entered into it.

—Taittirīya Upanishad 2.6.1