[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) › 4.4 # Maitrayaniya Upanishad 4.4 Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣad 4.4 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.4.4) cittasya hi prasādena hanti karma śubhāśubham | prasannātmātmani sthitvā sukhamavyayamaśnute || > "Brahman is," thus said one who knew the science of Brahman; and this penance is the door to Brahman, thus said one who by penance had cast off all sin. The syllable Om is the manifest greatness of Brahman, thus said one who well grounded (in Brahman) always meditates on it. Therefore by knowledge, by penance, and by meditation is Brahman gained. Thus one goes beyond Brahman (Hiranyagarbha), and to a divinity higher than the gods; nay, he who knows this, and worships Brahman by these three (by knowledge, penance, and meditation), obtains bliss imperishable, infinite, and unchangeable. Then freed from those things (the senses of the body, &c.) by which he was filled and overcome, a mere charioteer, he obtains union with the Self.' > — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15): Maitrâyaṇa-brâhmaṇa-upanishad - [Previous: 4.3\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.4.3_2) - [Next: 4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.4.5) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.4) ## Translations (1) - [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15): Maitrâyaṇa-brâhmaṇa-upanishad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri~en-muller.4.4) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English ## Commentaries (3) - [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!upanisadbrahmayogin.4.3) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīyopaniṣadvivaraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!upanisad-brahmayogi.4.3) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogī, Sanskrit - [Maitryupaniṣaddīpikā (Rāmatīrtha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri!ramatirtha) — Rāmatīrtha, Sanskrit ## Discussed in (3) - [Gorakhnāth and the Kānphaṭa Yogīs](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.briggs-1938.c17.37) — Briggs 1938, English - [Outlines of Indian Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.hiriyanna-1932.c10.22) — Hiriyanna 1932, English - [Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.coomaraswamy-1942.c2.s1.237) — Coomaraswamy 1942, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.maitri.4.4) · Pramāṇa