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Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.2.10

MuU 1.2.10

इष्टापूर्तं मन्यमाना वरिष्ठं नान्यच्छ्रेयो वेदयन्ते प्रमूढाः । नाकस्य पृष्ठे ते सुकृतेऽनुभूत्वेमं लोकं हीनतरं वा विशन्ति

iṣṭāpūrtaṃ manyamānā variṣṭhaṃ nānyacchreyo vedayante pramūḍhāḥ | nākasya pṛṣṭhe te sukṛte'nubhūtvemaṃ lokaṃ hīnataraṃ vā viśanti

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

Considering sacrifice and good works as the best, these fools know no higher good, and having enjoyed (their reward) on the height of heaven, gained by good works, they enter again this world or a lower one.

Translated by F. Max Müller

Permanent address: hreem.cc/library/MuU/1.2.10

Cite as: Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.2.10, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/MuU/1.2.10), 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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