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Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 2.2.4

MuU 2.2.4

प्रणवो धनुः शारो ह्यात्मा ब्रह्म तल्लक्ष्यमुच्यते । अप्रमत्तेन वेद्धव्यं शरवत् तन्मयो भवेत्

praṇavo dhanuḥ śāro hyātmā brahma tallakṣyamucyate | apramattena veddhavyaṃ śaravat tanmayo bhavet

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

Om is the bow, the Self is the arrow. Brahman is called its aim. It is to be hit by a man who is not thoughtless; and then, as the arrow (becomes one with the target), he will become one with Brahman.

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 2.2.4, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/MuU/2.2.4), 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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