Prayer of the Day

Prayer from Kena Upanishad

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इह चॆदवॆदीदथ सत्यमस्ति न चॆदिहावॆदीन्महती विनष्टि: ।
भूतॆषु भूतॆषु विचित्य धीराः प्रॆत्यास्माल्लॊकादमृता भवन्ति ॥ ५ ॥

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Hymn as Romanized text

 
Om

iha chEdavEdIdatha satyamasti na chEdihAvEdInmahatI vinaShTi: |
bhUtEShu bhUtEShu vichitya dhIrAH prEtyAsmAllOkAdamRutA bhavanti || 5 ||

(iha chEt avEdIt atha satyam asti na chEt iha avEdIn mahatI vinaShTi: |
bhUtEShu bhUtEShu vichitya dhIrAH prEtya asmAt lOkAt amRutA bhavanti || )

Om

Meaning of the Prayer Hymn:

 Having known thus, one stays in the Truth.
By not knowing thus one is at a great loss!
The brave who realizes at all beings,
raising above the mortal world, stays eternal!

 Notes: 

1. avEdit - has known; prEtya - hereafter.

2.  Having known thus 
This refers to the essence of this chapter of the upanishad
said in the previous verses - i.e. The Supreme Shiva cannot be
known fully, nor totally unknown. One who moves with the dawn
of experience the Supreme gives with the courage and the wisdom
gets to eternal Bliss.

Such a person will realize the Supreme in everything seen.
So that person raises above the mortal coil and stays ever at 
Eternal Bliss!

c.f. a. वॆदाहमॆतम् पुरुषम् महान्तम् । आदित्यवर्णम् तमसस्तु पारॆ।
सर्वाणि रूपाणि विचित्य धीरः । नामानि कृत्वा अभिवतन् यदास्तॆ ।
धाता पुरस्ताध्यमुदाजहार । शक्र प्रविद्वान् प्रदिशश्च तस्रः ।
तमॆवम् विद्वान् अमृत इह भवति । - Rig veda

b. வித்தைக் கெடுத்து வியாக்கிரத் தேமிகச்
சுத்தத் துரியம் பிறந்து துடக்கற
ஒத்துப் புலனுயிர் ஒன்றாய் உடம்பொடு
செத்திட் டிருப்பார் சிவயோகி யார்களே. - திருமந்திரம்