The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c40.s5.50

v2.c40.s5.50

The other side of this exaltation of the bliss of the absolute is of course the view that all the world is misery,⁶ but the pessimism of the Upaniṣads is moderate: we hear of the miseries of old age and death or disease, and trouble which the knowledge of the absolute removes, but the growth of the spirit of pessimism is only to be traced in Upaniṣads of the quite late class.