Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad ("Great Forest Teaching") 4.5.3
Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad 4.5.3
- Language
- Sanskrit
4.5.3
sā hovāca maitreyī yannu ma iyaṃ bhagoḥ sarvā pṛthivī vittena pūrṇā syātsyāṃ nvahaṃ tenāmṛtāho3 neti neti hovāca yājñavalkyo yathaivopakaraṇavatāṃ jīvitaṃ tathaiva te jīvitam̐ syādamṛtatvasya tu nāśāsti vitteneti
Maitreyî said: 'My Lord, if this whole earth, full of wealth, belonged to me, tell me, should I be immortal by it, or no?'
'No,' replied Yâgñavalkya, 'like the life of rich people will be thy life. But there is no hope of immortality by wealth.'
Translations (1)
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
Commentaries (7)
- Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bṛhadāraṇyakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- Mitākṣarā — Nityānanda Āśrama, Sanskrit