That muni who contemplates thus till sleep and till death is to be known as a jīvanmukṭa. Having done what ought to be done, he is a fortunate person. And having given up (even) the state of a jīvanmukṭa, he attains viḍehamu.kti (emancipation in a disembodied state), after his body wears off. He attains the state, as if of moving in the air. Then That alone remains which is soundless, touchless, formless, and deathless, which is the rasa (essence), eternal, and odourless, which has neither beginning nor end, which is greater than the great, and which is permanent, stainless, and decayless.

Thus ends the Upanishaḍ.

Footnotes

260:1 In this Upanishaḍ are stated the ways by which the Kuṇdalinī power is roused from the navel upwards to the middle of the eyebrows and then up to sahasrāra in the head: this being one of the important works of an adept to master the forces of nature.

260:2 Chiṭṭa is the flitting aspect of Antaḥkaraṇa.

260:3 Lit., the moving of śakṭi which is Kuṇdalinī.

260:4 Regarding the quantity to be taken, one should take of solid food half of his stomach: of liquid food, one quarter, leaving the remaining quarter empty for the air to percolate.

260:5 Mūlakanḍa is the root of kanḍa, the genital organ.

261:1 The moving of sarasvaṭī nādi situated on the west of the navel among the 14 nādis (Vide Vāraha and other Upanishaḍs).

261:2 Sarasvaṭī is called also Arunḍhaṭī who is literally one that helps good actions being done and the wife of Ṛshi Vasishtha—also the star that is shown to the bride on marriage occasions.

261:3 In exhalation, prāṇa goes out 16 digits and in inhalation, goes in only for 12, thus losing 4. But if inhaled for 16, then the power is aroused.

261:4 Lit., associated with and alone. Vide Śāṇdilya-Upanishaḍ.

263:1 They are Brahmagranṭhi, Vishṇugranṭhi, and Ruḍragranṭhi.

263:2 Bandhas are certain kinds of position of the body.

263:3 This probably refers to Sarasvaṭī Nādi.

264:1 The text is Anākhiam which has no sense. It has been translated as Anāstha.

265:1 Twelve seems to be the right number of petals in the anāhaṭa-chakra of the heart; but the moon is probably meant having sixteen rays.

265:2 The passages here are obscure.

265:3 They are Mūlaprakṛṭi, Mahaṭ, Ahaṅkāra and the five elements.

265:4 Here it is the astral seminal fluid which, in the case of a neophyte, not having descended to a gross fluid through the absence of sexual desire, rises up being conserved as a spiritual energy.

265:5 A stage of being able to convey to other bodies the deity appointed by God to help in the conveying of sūkshma (subtle) body to other bodies at the expiry of good actions which contribute to the enjoyment of material pleasures (vide Apte's Dictionary).