KaU 1.2.2 — Kaṭha Upaniṣad

KaU 1.2.2

श्रेयश्च प्रेयश्च मनुष्यमेतः तौ सम्परीत्य विविनक्ति धीरः । श्रेयो हि धीरोऽभि प्रेयसो वृणीते प्रेयो मन्दो योगक्षेमाद्वृणीते

śreyaś ca preyaś ca manuṣyam etas tau saṃparītya vivinakti dhīraḥ / śreyo hi dhīro 'bhi preyaso vṛṇīte preyo mando yogakṣemād vṛṇīte

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

The good and the pleasant approach man; the wise examines both and discriminates between them; the wise prefers the good to the pleasant, but the foolish man chooses the pleasant through love of bodily pleasure.

Translated by Swami Paramananda

The good and the pleasant approach man: the wise goes round about them and distinguishes them. Yea, the wise prefers the good to the pleasant, but the fool chooses the pleasant through greed and avarice.

Translated by F. Max Müller

← KaU 1.2.1Ask about this verse KaU 1.2.3 →

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Cite as: Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.2, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/KaU/1.2.2), 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/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_ | IAST: GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/kathop_u.htm — Katha-Upanisad Based on Olivelle, Patrick: The Early Upaniṣads. Annotated Text and Translation. New York : 1998, pp. 374-402. Input and proofreading by the Vienna University Student Team (SoSe 2016) [GRETIL-Version vom 09.11.2016] STRUCTURE OF REFERENCES: KaU_

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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