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Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.1.8

MuU 3.1.8

न चक्षुषा गृह्यते नापि वाचा नान्यैर्देवैस्तपसा कर्मण वा । ज्ञानप्रसादेन विशुद्धसत्त्व- स्ततस्तु तं पश्यते निष्कलं ध्यायमानः

na cakṣuṣā gṛhyate nāpi vācā nānyairdevaistapasā karmaṇa vā | jñānaprasādena viśuddhasattva- statastu taṃ paśyate niṣkalaṃ dhyāyamānaḥ

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

He is not apprehended by the eye, nor by speech, nor by the other senses, not by penance or good works. When a man's nature has become purified by the serene light of knowledge, then he sees him, meditating on him as without parts.

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.1.8, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/MuU/3.1.8), 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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