[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad) › [Principal (early) Upaniṣads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya) › [Maitrayaniya Upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri) › 3.3 # Maitrayaniya Upanishad 3.3 Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣad 3.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.3.3) athānyatrāpyuktaṃ yaḥ kartā so'yaṃ vai bhūtātmā karaṇaiḥ kārayitāntaḥpuruṣo'tha yathāgnināyaḥpiṇḍo vābhibhūtaḥ kartṛbhirhanyamāno nānātvamupaityevaṃ vāva khalvasau bhūtātmāntaḥpuruṣeṇābhibhūto guṇairhanyamāno nānātvamupaityatha yattriguṇaṃ caturaśītilakṣayonipariṇataṃ bhūtatriguṇametadvai nānātvasya rūpaṃ tāni ha vā imāni guṇāni puruṣeṇeritāni cakramiva cakriṇetyatha yathāyaḥpiṇḍe hanyamāne nāgnirabhibhūyatyevaṃ nābhibhūyatyasau puruṣo'bhibhūyatyayaṃ bhūtātmopasaṃśliṣṭatvāditi || > 3. “Now, it has elsewhere been said: ‘Verily, he who is the doer is the elemental soul. The causer of action through the organs is the inner Person. Now, verily, as a lump of iron, overcome by fire and beaten by workmen, passes over into a different form—so, assuredly, indeed, the elemental soul, > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads > overcome by the inner Person and beaten by Qualities, passes over into a different form. The mode of that different form, verily, has a fourfold covering, is fourteenfold, is transformed in eighty-four different ways, is a host of beings. These varieties, verily, are driven by the Person, like "the wheel by the potter." Now, as, when a lump of iron is being hammered, the fire \[in it\] is not overcome, so that Person is not overcome. This elemental soul (\_bhūtātman\_) is overcome (\_abhibhūta\_) because of its attachment \[to Qualities\].' > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads - [Previous: 3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.3.2) - [Next: 3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.3.4) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.3) ## Translations (2) - [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri~en-hume.3.p13) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English - [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15): Maitrâyaṇa-brâhmaṇa-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri~en-muller.3.3) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English ## Commentaries (3) - [Maitryupaniṣaddīpikā (Rāmatīrtha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!ramatirtha.3.2) — Rāmatīrtha 1550, Sanskrit - [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!upanisadbrahmayogin.3.3) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣadvivaraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!upanisad-brahmayogi.3.3) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogī, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (7) - [Īśādiviṃśottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.isadivimsottarasatopanisadah.3.39_77) — Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīyāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.maitrayaniya.3.2.p1) — Sanskrit - [Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.samanya.astottarasatopanisadah.280.3) — Sanskrit - [Aṣṭottaraśatopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.astottarasatopanisad.34.3) — Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā (ed. Śrīpāda Dāmodara Sātavalekara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*maitrayani*satavalekara1941.369.3) — Sanskrit - [Upaniṣatsaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.upanisatsamgraha.40.3) — Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣad or Maitryupaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitrayaniyopanisadormaitryupanisad.2.3) — Sanskrit ## Discussed in (4) - [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v2.c40.s7.t3.27) — Keith 1925, English - [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c24.3) — Pande 1957, English - [The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.hopkins-1901.c4.s8.t3.16) — Hopkins 1901, English - [Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.coomaraswamy-1942.c2.s1.208) — Coomaraswamy 1942, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.3.3) · Pramāṇa