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# Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 2.2.1

Muṇḍakopaniṣad 2.2.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.1)

āviḥ sannihitaṃ guhācaraṃ nāma mahat padam atraitat samarpitam.  
ejat prāṇan nimiṣac ca yad etaj jānatha sadasadvareṇyam.  
paraṃ vijñānād yad variṣṭhaṃ prajānām.

> 1. Manifest, \[yet\] hidden; called 'Moving-in-secret';  
> The great abode! Therein is placed that  
> Which moves and breathes and winks.  
> What that is, know as Being (sad) and Non-being (a-sad),  
> As the object of desire, higher than understanding,  
> As what is the best of creatures!  
> — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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## Translations (2)

- [The Thirteen Principal Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-hume.2.2.p2) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-muller.2.2.1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (4)

- [Muṇḍakopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!sankara.4.2.1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Muṇḍakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!rangaramanuja.2.2.1) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!padapatha.2.2.1) — Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!upanisadbrahmayogin.4.1) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (2)

- [Devībhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.devibhagavata.7.36.3) — Sanskrit
- [Devīgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.devibhagavata.devigita.6.2) — Sanskrit

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