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अथर्ववेद - काण्ड 11/ सूक्त 3/ मन्त्र 56
सूक्त - अथर्वा
देवता - मन्त्रोक्ताः
छन्दः - प्राजापत्या बृहती
सूक्तम् - ओदन सूक्त
न च॑ सर्वज्या॒निं जी॒यते॑ पु॒रैनं॑ ज॒रसः॑ प्रा॒णो ज॑हाति ॥
स्वर सहित पद पाठन । च॒ । स॒र्व॒ऽज्या॒निम् । जी॒यते॑ । पु॒रा । ए॒न॒म् । ज॒रस॑: । प्रा॒ण: । ज॒हा॒ति॒ ॥५.७॥
स्वर रहित मन्त्र
न च सर्वज्यानिं जीयते पुरैनं जरसः प्राणो जहाति ॥
स्वर रहित पद पाठन । च । सर्वऽज्यानिम् । जीयते । पुरा । एनम् । जरस: । प्राण: । जहाति ॥५.७॥
अथर्ववेद - काण्ड » 11; सूक्त » 3; मन्त्र » 56
Translation -
He not only ruins his life but becomes deprived of his vital airs before the arrival of old age. [N.B.:—The hymns concerned with Odana are very mysterious. To explode the mystery enclothed in the verses requires serious thinking over them as well as a keen sight into their interior treasure of knowledge. These hymn are pregnant with spiritual knowledge with a special reference to the plan, creation and purpose of this Cosmos. Cosmic order is itself full of many complexities. These are augmented with the equal tedium of the Yajna procedure. Without knowing the Yajna form and its procedure one cannot know the knowledge described in the verses. Equally without knowing the Cosmic order one cannot be able to know the real form of Yajna. Spiritual intention is also required to drive deep in the heart of the verses. Here in these hymns there is no reflection of the unity or oness of the Bhoktar and BHOGA. Nor there is the oneness of God, world and the observer of the world of the jivas. The enjoyment of the world should be enjoyed very carefully and intelligently. Undue indulgence and absorption in it is injurious and it spoil the organs and enjoying capacity of enjoyer. This Odana is the Odana for whose importance and magnitude Divinity is responsible exclusively. The Odana cannot be eaten by the eaters, it eats out itself and ruins the laters if they eat it indiscriminately. This Odana the heterogeneous whole—complex of universe consumes itself to return to the homogeneous primal state of material cause—the Prakriti. The last verses of hymns give the clue to penetrate the mystery. In them it has been unequivocally and distinctly described—“the Lord of the Universe creates the 33 elements of the world from this Odana and he reveals the procedure of Yajna for attaining the knowledge of them.”]