Library·Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad·3·3.1·3.1.1
द्वा सुपर्णा सयुजा सखाया समानं वृक्षं परिषस्वजाते । तयोरन्यः पिप्पलं स्वाद्वत्त्यनश्नन्नन्यो अभिचाकशीति
dvā suparṇā sayujā sakhāyā samānaṃ vṛkṣaṃ pariṣasvajāte | tayoranyaḥ pippalaṃ svādvattyanaśnannanyo abhicākaśīti
Sanskrit for this text is pending; the English follows the translator's numbering.
Two birds, inseparable friends, cling to the same tree. One of them eats the sweet fruit, the other looks on without eating.
Translated by F. Max Müller
Permanent address: hreem.cc/library/MuU/3.1.1
Cite as: Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.1.1, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/MuU/3.1.1), after English: F.
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)