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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 84

Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya 84

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara.84)

na sāmparāyaḥ pratibhāti bālaṃ pramādyantaṃ vittamohena mūḍham /  
ayaṃ loko nāsti para iti mānī punaḥ punar vaśam āpadyate me ///1,2.6 //

> 6. The way to the future does not shine for the ignorant man who blunders, rendered, blind by folly caused by wealth; thinking thus ‘this world is and none other,’ be gets into my power again and again.  
> — S. Sitarama Sastri 1898, The Kaṭha Upaniṣad and Śrī Śaṅkara's Commentary

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## Translations (2)

- [The Kaṭha Upaniṣad and Śrī Śaṅkara's Commentary](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara~en-sitaramasastri.1.2.6.p1) — S. Sitarama Sastri 1898, English
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