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Isha Upanishad (Shanti Mantra): That Is Whole, This Is Whole

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The famous invocation of fullness: from the whole comes the whole, and the whole yet remains. A verse on completeness and peace.

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oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate

Isha Upanishad · Shanti Mantra · Shukla Yajur Veda

That is whole, this is whole; from the whole the whole arises; take the whole from the whole, and the whole yet remains.

The peace invocation chanted at the opening and close of the Upanishad — on the fullness of the Divine, from which all fullness flows, leaving the whole forever whole.

What it means

That is whole, this is whole; from the whole the whole arises; take the whole from the whole, and the whole yet remains.

The peace invocation chanted at the opening and close of the Upanishad — on the fullness of the Divine, from which all fullness flows, leaving the whole forever whole.

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That is whole, this is whole; from the whole the whole arises; take the whole from the whole, and the whole yet remains. (Isha Upanishad · Shanti Mantra · Shukla Yajur Veda.) Godify shows this verse verbatim from a verified corpus with its exact source, never a paraphrase passed off as the original.

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