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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 3.7

Kaṭhopaniṣad 3.7

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.3.7)

yas tv avijñānavān bhavaty amanaskaḥ sadāśuciḥ /  
na sa tat padam āpnoti saṃsāraṃ cādhigacchati //

> 7. He, however, who has not understanding,  
> Who is unmindful and ever impure,  
> Reaches not the goal,  
> But goes on to transmigration (saṃsāra).  
> 8. He, however, who has understanding,  
> Who is mindful and ever pure,  
> Reaches the goal  
> From which he is born no more.  
> 9. He, however, who has the understanding of a chariot-driver,  
> A man who reins in his mind—  
> He reaches the end of his journey,  
> That highest place of Vishṇu.  
> — 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.p8) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara.141) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kaṭhaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!rangaramanuja.3.6-2) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Maṇiprabhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!amaradasa.3.7) — Amaradāsa, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankaracarya.3.7) — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!upanisadbrahmayogin) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
- [Ṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!tika) — Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!padapatha) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (5)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.240) — P. V. Kane, English
- [A History of Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dasgupta-1922.v1.c12.s2.3) — Surendranath Dasgupta, English
- [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c40.s12.18) — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c13.373) — Govind Chandra Pande, English
- [The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1912.c4.2) — Paul Deussen & Charles Johnston, English

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