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# Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.4

Muṇḍakopaniṣad 3.2.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.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.  
> — 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.p6) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-muller.3.2.4) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Muṇḍakopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!sankara.6.2.3-2.p1) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!padapatha.3.2.4) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Siddhāntasiddhāñjana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.advaita.sastra.siddhantasiddhanjana.3.p329) — Kṛṣṇānanda Sarasvatī 1640, Sanskrit

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