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Mundaka Upanishad

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The Mundaka Upanishad is one of the principal Upanishads. It consists of three sections.

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Olivelle, Patrick (1998). The Early Upanishads. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512435-9. 
  • As a spider spins out threads, then draws them into itself;
As plants sprout out from the earth;
As head and body hair grows from a living man;
So from the imperishable all things here spring.
  • 1.1.7
  • What cannot be seen, what cannot be grasped,
without color, without sight or hearing,
without hands or feet;
What is eternal and all-pervading,
extremely minute, present everywhere—
That is the immutable,
which the wise fully perceive.
  • 1.6
  • Two birds, companions and friends,
nestle on the very same tree.
One of them eats a tasty fig;
the other, not eating, looks on.
Stuck on the very same tree,
one person grieves, deluded
by her who is not the Lord;
But when he sees the other,
the contented Lord—and his majesty—
his grief disappears.
  • 3.1.1-2
  • Not by sight, not by speech, nor by any other sense;
nor by austerities or rites is he grasped.
Rather the partless one is seen by a man, as he meditates,
when his being has become pure,
through the lucidity of knowledge.
  • 3.1.8
  • As the rivers flow on and enter into the ocean
giving up their names and appearances;
So the knower, freed from name and appearance,
reaches the heavenly Person, beyond the very highest.
  • 3.2.8
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Upanishads
Principal IshaKenaKathaPrashnaMundakaMandukyaTaittiriyaAitareyaChandogyaBrihadaranyaka
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