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Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2

Kaṭhopaniṣad 2.2

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Sanskrit

2.2

śreyaś ca preyaś ca manuṣyam etas tau saṃparītya vivinakti dhīraḥ /
śreyo hi dhīro 'bhi preyaso vṛṇīte preyo mando yogakṣemād vṛṇīte //

2. Both the better and the pleasanter come to a man.
Going all around the two, the wise man discriminates.
The wise man chooses the better, indeed, rather than the pleasanter.
The stupid man, from getting-and-keeping (yoga-kṣema), chooses the pleasanter.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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