Kena Upanishad - Part 2 - Sinhala

The second section of කේනෝපනිෂත් moves from the first section's inquiry into a subtler correction: Brahman cannot be held as an object of complete conceptual mastery. The student must outgrow both spiritual arrogance and blank uncertainty.

These verses are famous for paradox. That paradox is not confusion; it is pedagogy. It breaks rigid mental habits and prepares the seeker for a mode of knowing that is immediate, lived, and non-objectifying.

යදි මන්යසේ සුවේදේති දහරමේවාපි
නූනං ත්වං වේත්ථ බ්රහ්මණෝ රූපම් ।
යදස්ය ත්වං යදස්ය දේවේෂ්වථ නු
මීමාම්ස්යමේව තේ මන්යේ විදිතම් ॥ 1॥

Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
If you think, "I know Brahman well," you know only a small aspect of it. What you take to be Brahman in yourself and in cosmic powers is still to be examined more deeply.

නාහං මන්යේ සුවේදේති නෝ න වේදේති වේද ච ।
යෝ නස්තද්වේද තද්වේද නෝ න වේදේති වේද ච ॥ 2॥

Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
I do not think "I know Brahman fully," nor do I think "I do not know it at all." I know it in a different way. Whoever understands this manner of knowing truly knows.

යස්යාමතං තස්ය මතං මතං යස්ය න වේද සඃ ।
අවිජ්ඤාතං විජානතාං විජ්ඤාතමවිජානතාම් ॥ 3॥

Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
For the one who does not objectify Brahman as fully grasped, it is truly understood. For the one who thinks it is fully objectified, it is not understood. It is not knowable as an object to the wise, but appears objectified only to those without true insight.

ප්රතිබෝධවිදිතං මතමමෘතත්වං හි විංදතේ ।
ආත්මනා විංදතේ වීර්යං විද්යයා විංදතේऽමෘතම් ॥ 4॥

Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
Brahman is rightly understood as that which is known in every act of awareness; through this one attains immortality. Through the Self one gains inner strength, and through true knowledge one realizes the deathless state.

ඉහ චේදවේදීදථ සත්යමස්ති
න චේදිහාවේදීන්මහතී විනෂ්ටිඃ ।
භූතේෂු භූතේෂු විචිත්ය ධීරාඃ
ප්රේත්යාස්මාල්ලෝකාදමෘතා භවංති ॥ 5॥

Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
If this is realized here in this very life, one's life is fulfilled in truth. If not realized here, the loss is great. The wise, seeing the Self in all beings, transcend limited worldly identity and attain immortality.

॥ ඉති කේනෝපනිෂදි ද්විතීයඃ ඛංඩඃ ॥

Translation (භාවාර්ථ):
Thus ends the second section of the Kena Upanishad.

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