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# Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 2.2.4

Muṇḍakopaniṣad 2.2.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.4)

praṇavo dhanuḥ śaro hy ātmā brahma tal lakṣyam ucyate.  
apramattena veddhavyaṃ śaravat tanmayo bhavet.

> 4. The mystic syllable Om (praṇava) is the bow. The arrow is the soul (ātman).  
> Brahma is said to be the mark (lakṣya).  
> By the undistracted man is It to be penetrated.  
> One should come to be in It, as the arrow \[in the mark\].  
> — 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.p6) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-muller.2.2.4) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (4)

- [Muṇḍakopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!sankara.4.2.4) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Muṇḍakaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!rangaramanuja.2.2.4.p1) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!padapatha.2.2.4) — Sanskrit
- [Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!upanisadbrahmayogin.4.3) — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit

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