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Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.1.8

MuU 1.1.8

तपसा चीयते ब्रह्म ततोऽन्नमभिजायते । अन्नात् प्राणो मनः सत्यं लोकाः कर्मसु चामृतम्

tapasā cīyate brahma tato'nnamabhijāyate | annāt prāṇo manaḥ satyaṃ lokāḥ karmasu cāmṛtam

Sanskrit for this text is pending; the English follows the translator's numbering.

The Brahman swells by means of brooding (penance); hence is produced matter (food); from matter breath, mind, the true, the worlds (seven), and from the works (performed by men in the worlds), the immortal (the eternal effects, rewards, and punishments of works).

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.1.8, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/MuU/1.1.8), after English: F.

Edition, numbering and licence

English: F. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East (Oxford, 1884); English Wikisource. Sanskrit pending (not held in GRETIL). | Devanagari: Sanskrit Wikisource, मुण्डकोपनिषद् (mantras numbered m.k.n; count-checked against the canonical 64); IAST generated from it.

Public domain (Müller d. 1900). English Wikisource proofread transcription of Sacred Books of the East. Structure follows Müller's numbering; Sanskrit pending. | Sanskrit: Wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0 / public-domain text)

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