Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.4
Muṇḍakopaniṣad 3.2.4
- Language
- Sanskrit
3.2.4
nāyam ātmā balahīnena labhyo na ca pramādāt tapaso vāpy aliṅgāt.
etair upāyair yatate yas tu vidvāṃs tasyaiṣa ātmā viśate brahma dhāma.
4. This Soul (Ātman) is not to be obtained by one destitute of
fortitude,
Nor through heedlessness, nor through a false notion of
austerity (*tapas*).
But he who strives by these means, provided he knows—
Into his Brahma-abode this Soul (Ātman) enters.
Translations (2)
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English
Commentaries (2)
- Muṇḍakopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS) — Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Siddhāntasiddhāñjana — Kṛṣṇānanda Sarasvatī 1640, Sanskrit