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Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.8

MuU 3.2.8

यथा नद्यः स्यन्दमानाः समुद्रेऽ स्तं गच्छन्ति नामरूपे विहाय । तथा विद्वान् नामरूपाद्विमुक्तः परात्परं पुरुषमुपैति दिव्यम्

yathā nadyaḥ syandamānāḥ samudre' staṃ gacchanti nāmarūpe vihāya | tathā vidvān nāmarūpādvimuktaḥ parātparaṃ puruṣamupaiti divyam

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

As the flowing rivers disappear in the sea, losing their name and their form, thus a wise man, freed from name and form, goes to the divine Person, who is greater than the great.

Translated by F. Max Müller

Permanent address: hreem.cc/library/MuU/3.2.8

Cite as: Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.8, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/MuU/3.2.8), 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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