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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 3.11

Kaṭhopaniṣad 3.11

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.3.11)

mahataḥ param avyaktam avyaktāt puruṣaḥ paraḥ /  
puruśān na paraṃ kiṃcit sā kāṣṭhā sā parā gatiḥ //

> 10. Higher than the senses are the objects of sense.  
> Higher than the objects of sense is the mind (manas);  
> And higher than the mind is the intellect (buddhi).  
> Higher than the intellect is the Great Self (Ātman).  
> 11. Higher than the Great is the Unmanifest (avyakta).  
> Higher than the Unmanifest is the Person.  
> Higher than the Person there is nothing at all.  
> That is the goal. That is the highest course.  
> — 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.1.3.p10) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara.148) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kaṭhaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!rangaramanuja.3.11) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Maṇiprabhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!amaradasa.3.11) — Amaradāsa, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankaracarya.3.11) — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!upanisadbrahmayogin.2.10) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Ṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!tika.2.10) — Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!padapatha) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (8)

- [Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.radhakrishnan-1923.v1.c9.s12.3) — S. Radhakrishnan, English
- [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c40.s6.36) — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c13.s1.13) — Govind Chandra Pande, English
- [The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.hopkins-1901.c4.s8.t2.11) — E. W. Hopkins, English
- [The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1912.c5.s1.t6.51) — Paul Deussen & Charles Johnston, English
- [The History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.weber-1878.c8.472) — Albrecht Weber, English
- [Epic Mythology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.hopkins-1915.c10.s2.60) — Edward Washburn Hopkins, English
- [The Sāṃkhya System: A History of the Sāṃkhya Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1918.c11.30) — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English

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