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# Isha Upanishad 12

Īśopaniṣad 12

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa.12)

andhantamaḥ praviśanti ye'saṃbhūtimupāsate  
tato bhūya iva te tamo ya u saṃbhūtyām̐ ratāḥ

> Those who worship the Unmanifested (Prakṛti) enter into blinding darkness; but those who are devoted to the Manifested (Hiraṇyagarbha) enter into greater darkness.  
> — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya

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## Translations (4)

- [Eight Upaniṣads, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa~en-gambhirananda.12) — Swami Gambhirananda 1957, English
- [The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1): Vâjasaneyi-saṃhitâ-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa~en-muller.12) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
- [The Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa~en-nikhilananda.12) — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa~en-hume.0.p18) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Īśāvāsyopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa!sankara.58) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Īśāvāsyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa!rangaramanuja.12.1.p1) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa*kanva!padapatha.12) — Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa!upanisadbrahmayogin.12) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Īśāvāsyopaniṣad C](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa!isavasyopanisadc) — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit
- [Bhāṣya of Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa!baladeva-vidyabhusana) — Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.isa!sankaracarya) — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit

## Discussed in (3)

- [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.6289) — Bloomfield 1906, English
- [The Philosophy of the Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1906.c9.s4.t5.66) — Deussen & Geden 1899, English
- [The Sāṃkhya System: A History of the Sāṃkhya Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1918.c5.27) — Keith 1918, English

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