Nada Bindu Upanishad

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Nada Bindu Upanishad (Devanagari: नाद-बिन्दु उपनिषद् or नादबिन्दूपनिषत) is one of the 'minor' Upanishads listed in the Muktika canon. It is a Yoga Upanishad associated with the Rigveda. It was first translated into English by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar (1914).

'Prarabdha' (Devanagari: प्रारब्ध) is employed in the Nada Bindu Upanishad verse 21 as follows:

आत्मानं सततं ज्ञात्वा कालं नय महामते | प्रारब्धमखिलं भुञ्जन्नोद्वेगं कर्तुमर्हसि || २१||

"21. O intelligent man, spend your life always in the knowing of the supreme bliss, enjoying the whole of your Prarabdha (that portion of past Karma now being enjoyed) without making any complaint (of it)" (trans. Aiyar 1914)

References

• Aiyar, K. Narayanasvami (trans.) NĀḌABINḌU-UPANISHAḌ OF ṚGVEḌA in Thirty Minor Upanishads. (1914)

External links

• नाद-बिन्दु उपनिषद्
• Notes on Nad-bindu Upanishad
• Nada Bindu Upanishad (English with Sanskrit in Devanagari encoded in Unicode) Version: 9 February 2010 @ Scribd