IsU 9 — Īśa Upaniṣad

IsU 9

अन्धं तमः प्रविशन्ति येऽविद्यामुपासते । ततो भूय इव ते तमो य उ विद्यायाँ रताः

andhaṃ tamaḥ praviśanti ye 'vidyām upāsate | tato bhūya iva te tamo ya uvidyāyāṃ ratāḥ

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

They enter into blind darkness who worship Avidya (ignorance and delusion); they fall, as it were, into greater darkness who worship Vidya (knowledge).

Translated by Swami Paramananda

All who worship what is not real knowledge (good works), enter into blind darkness: those who delight in real knowledge, enter, as it were, into greater darkness.

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Īśa Upaniṣad 9, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/IsU/9), after Project Gutenberg #3283, Swami Paramananda, The Upanishads (1919).

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Project Gutenberg #3283 — Swami Paramananda, The Upanishads (1919) | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/isup___u.htm — Isa-Upanisad (Isopanisad or Isavasyopanisad), Kanva recension with the commentary ascribed to Samkara Input by Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version: 2018-08-02] Revision: 2018-08-02: syayambhūr corrected to svay | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/isup___u.htm — Isa-Upanisad (Isopanisad or Isavasyopanisad), Kanva recension with the commentary ascribed to Samkara Input by Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version: 2018-08-02] Revision: 2018-08-02: syayambhūr corrected to svay | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/isup___u.htm — Isa-Upanisad (Isopanisad or Isavasyopanisad), Kanva recension with the commentary ascribed to Samkara Input by Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version: 2018-08-02] Revision: 2018-08-02: syayambhūr corrected to svay | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/isup___u.htm — Isa-Upanisad (Isopanisad or Isavasyopanisad), Kanva recension with the commentary ascribed to Samkara Input by Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version: 2018-08-02] Revision: 2018-08-02: syayambhūr corrected to svay | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/isup___u.htm — Isa-Upanisad (Isopanisad or Isavasyopanisad), Kanva recension with the commentary ascribed to Samkara Input by Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version: 2018-08-02] Revision: 2018-08-02: syayambhūr corrected to svay | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/isup___u.htm — Isa-Upanisad (Isopanisad or Isavasyopanisad), Kanva recension with the commentary ascribed to Samkara Input by Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version: 2018-08-02] Revision: 2018-08-02: syayambhūr corrected to svay | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/isup___u.htm — Isa-Upanisad (Isopanisad or Isavasyopanisad), Kanva recension with the commentary ascribed to Samkara Input by Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version: 2018-08-02] Revision: 2018-08-02: syayambhūr corrected to svay | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/isup___u.htm — Isa-Upanisad (Isopanisad or Isavasyopanisad), Kanva recension with the commentary ascribed to Samkara Input by Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version: 2018-08-02] Revision: 2018-08-02: syayambhūr corrected to svay | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/isup___u.htm — Isa-Upanisad (Isopanisad or Isavasyopanisad), Kanva recension with the commentary ascribed to Samkara Input by Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version: 2018-08-02] Revision: 2018-08-02: syayambhūr corrected to svay

Public domain (Paramananda d. 1940; Project Gutenberg). Devanagari: Sanskrit Wikisource (public-domain text). | Sanskrit (IAST) from GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. | Sanskrit (IAST) from GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. | Sanskrit (IAST) from GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. | Sanskrit (IAST) from GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. | Sanskrit (IAST) from GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. | Sanskrit (IAST) from GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. | Sanskrit (IAST) from GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. English: F. Max Müller (SBE, public domain). | Sanskrit (IAST) from GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST. | Sanskrit (IAST) from GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST.

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