The Upanishads, Part II — SBE Vol. 15 — trans. F. Max Müller (1884)
The translator’s English as printed. The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
ness, as one draws the pith from a reed’. Let him know that Self as the Bright, as the Immortal ; yes, as the Bright, as the Immortal *.’ 18. Having received this knowledge taught by Death and the whole rule of Yoga (meditation), Nadiketa became free from passion * and death, and obtained Brahman. Thus it will be with another also who knows thus what relates to the Self. t9. May He protect us both! May He enjoy us both! May we acquire strength together! May our knowledge become bright! May we never quarrel!! Om! Peace! peace! peace! HariZ, Om!
» Roer: ‘ As from a painter’s brush a fibre.’ * This repetition marks, as usual, the end of a chapter. ° Viraga, free from vice and virtue. It may have been vigara, free from old age. See, however, Mund. Up. I, 2, 11. Cf) Taitt. Up. TI) rf incr, note.
MUNDAKA-UPANISHAD.
<7 nie 4-UPA toe
—— > _ ws the pith en 2s the Tage nt gs the Im uae ‘ < fies? thin. 5 Whole rule Gia free fron? | amen live ta iny We acer’ reo ie ice ; ! : ; t ¢ ze 4 5 vi = , de
MUNVDAKA-UPANISHAD.
FIRST MUNDAKA.
First KHaAwpa.
1. BrauMA was the first of the Devas, the maker of the universe, the preserver of the world. He told the knowledge of Brahman, the foundation of all knowledge, to his eldest son Atharva}. 2. Whatever Brahma told Atharvan, that knowledge of Brahman Atharvan formerly told to Angir ; he told it to Satyavaha Bharadvaga, and Bharadvaga told it in succession to Angiras. 3. Saunaka, the great householder, approached Angiras respectfully and asked: ‘Sir, what is that through which, if it is known, everything else becomes known ?’ 4. Hesaid to him: ‘ Two kinds of knowledge must be known, this is what all who know Brahman tell us, the higher and the lower knowledge.’ 5. ‘The lower knowledge is the Azg-veda, Yagurveda, Sdma-veda, Atharva-veda, Siksh4 (phonetics), Kalpa (ceremonial), Vy4karaza (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), K/andas (metre), Gyotisha (astronomy)?;
1 The change between Atharva and Atharvan, like that between Nakiketas and Nafiketa, shows the freedom of the phraseology of the Upanishad, and cannot be used for fixing the date of the constituent elements of the Upanishad. ? Other MSS. add here itihasa-puraza-ny4ya-mim4msa-dharmasastrazi,
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but the higher knowledge is that by which the Indestructible (Brahman) is apprehended.’ 6. ‘That which cannot be seen, nor seized, which has no family and no caste’, no eyes nor ears, no hands nor feet, the eternal, the omnipresent (allpervading), infinitesimal, that which is imperishable, that it is which the wise regard as the source of all beings.’ 7. ‘As the spider sends forth and draws in its thread, as plants grow on the earth, as from every man hairs spring forth on the head and the body, thus does everything arise here from the Indestructible.’ 8. ‘The Brahman swells by means of brooding (penance)?; hence is produced matter (food); from matter breath *, mind, the true‘, the worlds (seven), and from the works (performed by men in the worlds), the immortal (the eternal effects, rewards, and punishments of works).’
ness, as one draws the pith from a reed’. Let him know that Self as the Bright, as the Immortal ; yes, as the Bright, as the Immortal *.’ 18. Having received this knowledge taught by Death and the whole rule of Yoga (meditation), Nadiketa became free from passion * and death, and obtained Brahman. Thus it will be with another also who knows thus what relates to the Self. t9. May He protect us both! May He enjoy us both! May we acquire strength together! May our knowledge become bright! May we never quarrel!! Om! Peace! peace! peace! HariZ, Om!
» Roer: ‘ As from a painter’s brush a fibre.’ * This repetition marks, as usual, the end of a chapter. ° Viraga, free from vice and virtue. It may have been vigara, free from old age. See, however, Mund. Up. I, 2, 11. Cf) Taitt. Up. TI) rf incr, note.
MUNDAKA-UPANISHAD.
<7 nie 4-UPA toe
—— > _ ws the pith en 2s the Tage nt gs the Im uae ‘ < fies? thin. 5 Whole rule Gia free fron? | amen live ta iny We acer’ reo ie ice ; ! : ; t ¢ ze 4 5 vi = , de
MUNVDAKA-UPANISHAD.
FIRST MUNDAKA.
First KHaAwpa.
1. BrauMA was the first of the Devas, the maker of the universe, the preserver of the world. He told the knowledge of Brahman, the foundation of all knowledge, to his eldest son Atharva}. 2. Whatever Brahma told Atharvan, that knowledge of Brahman Atharvan formerly told to Angir ; he told it to Satyavaha Bharadvaga, and Bharadvaga told it in succession to Angiras. 3. Saunaka, the great householder, approached Angiras respectfully and asked: ‘Sir, what is that through which, if it is known, everything else becomes known ?’ 4. Hesaid to him: ‘ Two kinds of knowledge must be known, this is what all who know Brahman tell us, the higher and the lower knowledge.’ 5. ‘The lower knowledge is the Azg-veda, Yagurveda, Sdma-veda, Atharva-veda, Siksh4 (phonetics), Kalpa (ceremonial), Vy4karaza (grammar), Nirukta (etymology), K/andas (metre), Gyotisha (astronomy)?;
1 The change between Atharva and Atharvan, like that between Nakiketas and Nafiketa, shows the freedom of the phraseology of the Upanishad, and cannot be used for fixing the date of the constituent elements of the Upanishad. ? Other MSS. add here itihasa-puraza-ny4ya-mim4msa-dharmasastrazi,
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but the higher knowledge is that by which the Indestructible (Brahman) is apprehended.’ 6. ‘That which cannot be seen, nor seized, which has no family and no caste’, no eyes nor ears, no hands nor feet, the eternal, the omnipresent (allpervading), infinitesimal, that which is imperishable, that it is which the wise regard as the source of all beings.’ 7. ‘As the spider sends forth and draws in its thread, as plants grow on the earth, as from every man hairs spring forth on the head and the body, thus does everything arise here from the Indestructible.’ 8. ‘The Brahman swells by means of brooding (penance)?; hence is produced matter (food); from matter breath *, mind, the true‘, the worlds (seven), and from the works (performed by men in the worlds), the immortal (the eternal effects, rewards, and punishments of works).’
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