[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) › [Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka) › 2.2 # Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 2.2 Muṇḍakopaniṣad 2.2 - **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 ### [2.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.2) yad arcimad yad aṇubhyo 'ṇu ca yasmiṃl lokā nihitā lokinaś ca. tad etad akṣaraṃ brahma sa prāṇas tad u vāṅ manas. tad etat satyaṃ tad amṛtaṃ tad veddhavyaṃ somya viddhi. > 2. That which is flaming, which is subtler than the subtle, > On which the worlds are set, and their inhabitants— > That is the imperishable Brahma. > It is life (prāṇa), and It is speech and mind. > That is the real. It is immortal. > It is \[a mark\] to be penetrated. Penetrate It, my friend! > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.3) dhanur gṛhītvaupaniṣadaṃ mahāstraṃ śaraṃ hy upāsāniśitaṃ sandhayīta. āyamya tad bhāvagatena cetasā lakṣyaṃ tad evākṣaraṃ somya viddhi. > 3. Taking as a bow the great weapon of the Upanishad, > One should put upon it an arrow sharpened by meditation. > Stretching it with a thought directed to the essence of That, > Penetrate that Imperishable as the mark, my friend. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [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 ### [2.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.5) yasmin dyauḥ pṛthivī cāntarikṣam otaṃ manaḥ saha prāṇaiś ca sarvaiḥ. tam evaikaṃ jānatha ātmānam anyā vāco vimuñcathāmṛtasyaiṣa setuḥ. > 5. He on whom the sky, the earth, and the atmosphere > Are woven, and the mind, together with all the life-breaths (prāṇa), > Him alone know as the one Soul (Ātman). Other > Words dismiss. He is the bridge to immortality. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.6) arā iva rathanābhau saṃhatā yatra nāḍyaḥ sa eṣo 'ntaścarate bahudhā jāyamānaḥ. om ity evaṃ dhyāyatha ātmānaṃ svasti vaḥ pārāya tamasaḥ parastāt. > 6. Where the arteries are brought together Like the spokes in the hub of a wheel— Therein he moves about, Becoming manifold. Om!—Thus meditate upon the Soul (Ātman). Success to you in crossing to the farther shore beyond darkness! > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.7) yaḥ sarvajñaḥ sarvavid yasyaiṣa mahimā bhuvi. divye brahmapure hy eṣa vyomny ātmā pratiṣṭhitaḥ. > 7. He who is all-knowing, all-wise, > Whose is this greatness on the earth— > He is in the divine Brahma city > And in the heaven established! The Soul (Ātman)! > Consisting of mind, leader of the life-breaths and of the body, > He is established on food, controlling the heart. > By this knowledge the wise perceive > The blissful Immortal that gleams forth. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.8) manomayaḥ prāṇaśarīranetā pratiṣṭhito 'nne hṛdayaṃ sannidhāya. tad vijñānena paripaśyanti dhīrā ānandarūpam amṛtaṃ yad vibhāti. ### [2.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.9) bhidyate hṛdayagranthiś chidyante sarvasaṃśayāḥ. kṣīyante cāsya karmāṇi tasmin dṛṣṭe parāvare. > 8. The knot of the heart is loosened, > All doubts are cut off, > And one's deeds (karman) cease > When He is seen—both the higher and the lower. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.10) hiraṇmaye pare kośe virajaṃ brahma niṣkalam. tac chubhraṃ jyotiṣāṃ jyotis tad yad ātmavido viduḥ. > 9. In the highest golden sheath > Is Brahma, without stain, without parts. > Brilliant is It, the light of lights— > That which knowers of the Soul (Ātman) do know! > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.11) na tatra sūryo bhāti na candratārakaṃ nemā vidyuto bhānti kuto 'yam agniḥ. tam eva bhāntam anubhāti sarvaṃ tasya bhāsā sarvam idaṃ vibhāti. > 10. The sun shines not there, nor the moon and stars; > These lightnings shine not, much less this \[earthly\] fire! > After Him, as He shines, doth everything shine. > This whole world is illumined with His light. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ### [2.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2.12) brahmaivedam amṛtaṃ purastād brahma paścād brahma dakṣiṇataś cottareṇa. adhaś cordhvaṃ ca prasṛtaṃ brahmaivedaṃ viśvam idaṃ variṣṭham. > 11. Brahma, indeed, is this immortal. Brahma before, > Brahma behind, to right and to left. > Stretched forth below and above, > Brahma, indeed, is this whole world, this widest extent. > — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads ## 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 (7) - [Devīgītā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.devibhagavata.devigita.6.2) — Sanskrit - [Devībhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.devibhagavata.7.36.3) — Sanskrit - [Śrībhāṣya (complete text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.vedanta.brahmasutra!ramanuja*complete.3.3_2) — Sanskrit - [Nayamayūkhamālikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.visistadvaita.nayamayukhamalika.1.5.6.p1) — Sanskrit - [With Śaṅkara's bhāṣya (Sansknet input)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.vedanta.brahmasutra!sankara!ratnaprabha*withbhasya.1.121.3) — Sanskrit - [Siddhāntasiddhāñjana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.sastra.siddhantasiddhanjana.3.p201) — Kṛṣṇānanda Sarasvatī 1640, Sanskrit - [Prabhañjana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.suddhadvaita.vitthala.prabhanjana.5.18-3.2) — Viṭṭhalanātha 1518, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.2.2) · Pramāṇa