A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s9.81

v1.c8.s9.81

But how this high esteem of knowledge leads not only to the disregard of earthly pleasures, but to *contempt of the* *world altogether*,¹ is shown us by another Upaniṣad, in which for the first time that pessimistic trait of Indian thought appears, which we will meet with again and again in the later Indian literature. There we read:²