नीलरुद्रोपनिषद्
Nīlarudra Upanishad
The Terrible Who Is Kind: Rudra Descends
Look up at the azure-throated lord who comes down the sky with his arrow drawn, and pray, with the seer, that the shaft in his hand be turned to a shaft of blessing.
Not every Upanishad in this book was given a full commentary by Sri Aurobindo, and the Nila Rudra is one of the slightest. He translated the first of its three parts, with a commentary on the first five verses, at Pondicherry about 1912; the commentary covers only the first five verses, and of the second and third parts nothing in his hand is printed in the volume. What he left is nine verses and five short notes. The Gateway therefore keeps close to those notes and to the words of the mantras, and says nothing where he said nothing.
It is a small thing but a vivid one, more a hymn than an argument: a vision of Rudra, the Terrible, descending from the sky, and a people praying to the destroyer of evil that his arrow may fall as a blessing. Sri Aurobindo reads it as the record of a vision seen in Yoga by a prince of the Aryan people, and the interest of his notes lies in how quietly they turn a picture of storm and wrath into a question about the nature of the Divine.
Sri Aurobindo’s writings on it · 1
The text · 9 passages
Translation by Sri Aurobindo, of the first part of the Upanishad.