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# Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.1

Muṇḍakopaniṣad 3.2.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.1)

sa vedaitat paramaṃ brahma dhāma yatra viśvaṃ nihitaṃ bhāti śubhram.  
upāsate puruṣaṃ ye hy akāmās te śukram etad ativartanti dhīrāḥ.

> 1. He knows that Supreme Brahma-abode,  
> Founded on which the whole world shines radiantly.  
> They who, being without desire, worship the Person (Purusha)  
> And are wise, pass beyond the seed (\_śukra\_) \[of rebirth\] here.  
> 2. He who in fancy forms desires,  
> Because of his desires is born \[again\] here and there.  
> But of him whose desire is satisfied, who is a perfected soul (\_kṛtātman\_),  
> All desires even here on earth vanish away.  
> — 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.3.2.p2) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-muller.3.2.1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Muṇḍakopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!sankara.6.2.1.p1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!padapatha.3.2.1) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Prabhañjana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.suddhadvaita.vitthala.prabhanjana.6.2.6) — Viṭṭhalanātha 1518, Sanskrit

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