Maitrāyaṇīya Āraṇyaka 4.2
Maitrāyaṇīyāraṇyaka 4.2
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4.2
mā̱yāma̍yam̐ sva̱pna'i̍va mithyāda̱rśanaṃ ka̱dalī̍garbha'ivā̱sāraṃ na̱ṭa'i̍va kṣaṇave̱ṣaṃ
ci̱trabhittiriva mithyāma̱nora̍ma̱mityatho̍ktam̐
śa̱bdasparśāda̱yo hya̍rthā̱ martye'narthā̱'iva̍ sthitāḥ | yeṣā̍m̐ saktastu
bhū̱tātmā̱ na sma̍reta paraṃ pada̍m
perceiving falsely like a dream, unsubstantial like the pith of a banana plant, changing guise every moment like an actor, falsely pleasing like a painted wall.' And so it has been said:
'For sound, touch, and other objects exist in a mortal like non-objects;
attached to them, the elemental self remembers not the supreme state.'
4.2.p1
a̱yam̐ vāva kha̱lvasya̍ p̱rativi̍dhirbhū̱tātma̍no̱ yadve̍davidyādhi̱gama̍ḥ
sva̱dharmasyānuca̱raṇa̍m̐ svāśra̱meṣve̱vānukra̍maṇam̐ sva̱dharmasya vā'e̱tadvra̱̱tam̐
sta̍mbaśā̱kheve̍ta̱rāṇya̱neno̍rdhvabhāgbha̍vatya̱nyathā̍vā̱ṅpatatye̱ṣa
sva̱dharmo'bhihi̱3to̱ yo ve̱deṣu̱ na sva̱dharmāti̍krameṇāśra̱mī
This indeed is the remedy for the elemental self: the acquisition of Vedic knowledge,
observance of one's own duty, and progress in one's own stage of life. Indeed, this is the observance of one's own duty—
the others are like branches of a clump. By this, one partakes of what is higher; otherwise, one falls downward. This
is one's own duty declared in the Vedas. One does not become one who belongs to an āśrama by transgression of one's own duty.
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- Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣad — Sanskrit
- Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ — Sanskrit
- Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣad — Sanskrit
- Upaniṣatsaṃgraha — Sanskrit