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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.6

Kaṭhopaniṣad 2.6

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.2.6)

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

> 6. The passing-on is not clear to him who is childish,  
> Heedless, deluded with the delusion of wealth.  
> Thinking 'This is the world! There is no other!'—  
> Again and again he comes under my control.  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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## Translations (1)

- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha~en-hume.1.2.p9) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara.85) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kaṭhaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!rangaramanuja.2.6) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Nyāyarakṣāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.sastra.nyayaraksamani.110.1.4) — Appayya Dīkṣita 1560, Sanskrit

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