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Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 2.1.13

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇopaniṣad 2.1.13

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Sanskrit

2.1.13

eṣa dharmo 'yācato bhavati /

Of him who knows this, the secret doctrine (_upaniṣad_) is: ‘One should not beg.’ It is as if, having begged of a village and not having received, one were to sit down, saying: ‘I would not eat anything given from here!’ and then those very ones who formerly refused him invite him, saying: ‘Let us give to you!’ Such is the virtue (_dharma_) of the non-beggar. Charitable people, however, address him, saying divinities without his begging bring offering. Likewise indeed, to him all beings without his begging bring offering.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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