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# Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.2.9

Muṇḍakopaniṣad 3.2.9

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka.3.2.9)

sa yo ha vai tat paramaṃ brahma veda brahmaiva bhavati.  
nāsyābrahmavit  
kule bhavati.  
tarati śokaṃ tarati pāpmānaṃ guhāgranthibhyo vimukto 'mṛto  
bhavati.

> 9. He, verily, who knows that supreme Brahma, becomes very Brahma. In his family no one ignorant of Brahma arises. He crosses over sorrow. He crosses over sin (\_pāpman\_). Liberated from the knots of the heart, he becomes immortal.  
> — 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.p13) — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- [The Upanishads, Part II (SBE 15)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka~en-muller.3.2.9) — Friedrich Max Müller 1884, English

## Commentaries (2)

- [Muṇḍakopaniṣadbhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!sankara.6.2.8-2.p3) — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- [Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.mundaka!padapatha.3.2.9) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Sūtasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.sutasamhita.8.94) — Sanskrit

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