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# Kaṭha Upaniṣad 5.7

Kaṭhopaniṣad 5.7

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.5.7)

yonim anye prapadyante śarīratvāya dehinaḥ /  
sthāṇum anye 'nusaṃyanti yathākarma yathāśrutam //

> 7. Some go into a womb For the embodiment of a corporeal being. Others go into a stationary thing According to their deeds (\_karman\_), according to their knowledge.  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

### [5.7.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha.5.7.p1)

ya eṣa supteṣu jāgarti kāmaṃ kāmaṃ puruṣo nirmimāṇaḥ /  
tad eva śukraṃ tad brahma tad evāmṛtam ucyate /  
tasmiṃl lokāḥ śritāḥ sarve tad u nātyeti kaścana //

> 8. He who is awake in those that sleep,  
> The Person who fashions desire after desire—  
> That indeed is the Pure. That is Brahma.  
> That indeed is called the Immortal.  
> On it all the worlds do rest;  
> And no one soever goes beyond it.  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

## Translations (1)

- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha~en-hume.1.5.p9) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Kaṭhopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankara.216) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Kaṭhaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!rangaramanuja.5.7) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Maṇiprabhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!amaradasa.5.7) — Amaradāsa, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya of Śaṅkarācārya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!sankaracarya.5.7) — Śaṅkarācārya, Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!upanisadbrahmayogin.4.8) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- [Ṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!tika.4.8) — Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.katha!padapatha) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (7)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v5.c71.s1.133) — P. V. Kane, English
- [Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.radhakrishnan-1923.v1.c10.s1.19) — S. Radhakrishnan, English
- [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c40.s10.58) — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c13.244) — Govind Chandra Pande, English
- [The Philosophy of the Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.deussen-1906.c12.s1.t4.29) — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, 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
- [Buddhist India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.economy.rhysdavids-1903.c16.46) — T. W. Rhys Davids, English

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