Isha Upanishad — Chapter 1: Ishavasyopanishad

18 verses

Verse 1

All this — whatever moves in this moving world — is pervaded by the Lord. Enjoy through renunciation. Do not covet, for whose is wealth?

Verse 2

Performing works indeed, one should wish to live a hundred years. Thus for you — there is no other way than this — action does not cling to a person.

Verse 3

Sunless are those worlds, enveloped in blind darkness. To them after death go those people who are slayers of the Self.

Verse 4

Unmoving, It is one, swifter than the mind. The senses could not reach It, for It moved before them. Standing still, It outstrips those who run. In I…

Verse 5

It moves; It moves not. It is far; It is near. It is within all this; It is outside all this.