Māṇdūkya Upaniṣad
1.1.1
Brahma was the first of the Devas, the maker of the universe, the preserver of the world. He told...
1.1.2
Whatever Brahma told Atharvan, that knowledge of Brahman Atharvan formerly told to Angir; he told...
1.1.3
Saunaka, the great householder, approached Angiras respectfully and asked: `Sir, what is that thr...
1.1.4
He said to him: `Two kinds of knowledge must be known, this is what all who know Brahman tell us,...
1.1.5
`The lower knowledge is the Rig-veda, Yagurveda, Sama-veda, Atharva-veda, Siksha (phonetics), Kal...
1.1.6
`That which cannot be seen, nor seized, which has no family and no caste, no eyes nor ears, no ha...
1.1.7
`As the spider sends forth and draws in its thread, as plants grow on the earth, as from every ma...
1.1.8
`The Brahman swells by means of brooding (penance); hence is produced matter (food); from matter ...
1.1.9
`From him who perceives all and who knows all, whose brooding (penance) consists of knowledge, fr...
1.2.1
This is the truth: the sacrificial works which they (the poets) saw in the hymns (of the Veda) ha...
1.2.2
When the fire is lighted and the flame flickers, let a man offer his oblations between the two po...
1.2.3
If a man's Agnihotra sacrifice is not followed by the new-moon and full-moon sacrifices, by the f...
1.2.4
Kali (black), Karali (terrific), Manogava (swift as thought), Sulohita (very red), Sudhumravarna ...
1.2.5
If a man performs his sacred works when these flames are shining, and the oblations follow at the...
1.2.6
Come hither, come hither! the brilliant oblations say to him, and carry the sacrificer on the ray...
1.2.7
But frail, in truth, are those boats, the sacrifices, the eighteen, in which this lower ceremonia...
1.2.8
Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, and puffed up with vain knowledge, go roun...
1.2.9
Children, when they have long lived in ignorance, consider themselves happy. Because those who de...
1.2.10
Considering sacrifice and good works as the best, these fools know no higher good, and having enj...
1.2.11
But those who practise penance and faith in the forest, tranquil, wise, and living on alms, depar...
1.2.12
Let a Brahmana, after he has examined all these worlds which are gained by works, acquire freedom...
1.2.13
To that pupil who has approached him respectfully, whose thoughts are not troubled by any desires...
2.1.1
This is the truth. As from a blazing fire sparks, being like unto fire, fly forth a thousandfold,...
2.1.2
That heavenly Person is without body, he is both without and within, not produced, without breath...
2.1.3
From him (when entering on creation) is born breath, mind, and all organs of sense, ether, air, l...
2.1.4
Fire (the sky) is his head, his eyes the sun and the moon, the quarters his ears, his speech the ...
2.1.5
From him comes Agni (fire), the sun being the fuel; from the moon (Soma) comes rain (Parganya); f...
2.1.6
From him come the Rik, the Saman, the Yagush, the Diksha (initiatory rites), all sacrifices and o...
2.1.7
From him the many Devas too are begotten, the Sadhyas (genii), men, cattle, birds, the up and dow...
2.1.8
The seven senses (prana) also spring from him, the seven lights (acts of sensation), the seven ki...
2.1.9
Hence come the seas and all the mountains, from him flow the rivers of every kind; hence come all...
2.1.10
The Person is all this, sacrifice, penance, Brahman, the highest immortal; he who knows this hidd...
2.2.1
Manifest, near, moving in the cave (of the heart) is the great Being. In it everything is centred...
2.2.2
That which is brilliant, smaller than small, that on which the worlds are founded and their inhab...
2.2.3
Having taken the Upanishad as the bow, as the great weapon, let him place on it the arrow, sharpe...
2.2.4
Om is the bow, the Self is the arrow, Brahman is called its aim. It is to be hit by a man who is ...
2.2.5
In him the heaven, the earth, and the sky are woven, the mind also with all the senses. Know him ...
2.2.6
He moves about becoming manifold within the heart where the arteries meet, like spokes fastened t...
2.2.7
He who understands all and who knows all, he to whom all this glory in the world belongs, the Sel...
2.2.8
The fetter of the heart is broken, all doubts are solved, all his works (and their effects) peris...
2.2.9
In the highest golden sheath there is the Brahman without passions and without parts. That is pur...
2.2.10
The sun does not shine there, nor the moon and the stars, nor these lightnings, and much less thi...
2.2.11
That immortal Brahman is before, that Brahman is behind, that Brahman is right and left. It has g...
3.1.1
Two birds, inseparable friends, cling to the same tree. One of them eats the sweet fruit, the oth...
3.1.2
On the same tree man sits grieving, immersed, bewildered by his own impotence (an-isa). But when ...
3.1.3
When the seer sees the brilliant maker and lord (of the world) as the Person who has his source i...
3.1.4
For he is the Breath shining forth in all beings, and he who understands this becomes truly wise,...
3.1.5
By truthfulness, indeed, by penance, right knowledge, and abstinence must that Self be gained; th...
3.1.6
The true prevails, not the untrue; by the true the path is laid out, the way of the gods (devayan...
3.1.7
That (true Brahman) shines forth grand, divine, inconceivable, smaller than small; it is far beyo...
3.1.8
He is not apprehended by the eye, nor by speech, nor by the other senses, not by penance or good ...
3.1.9
That subtle Self is to be known by thought (ketas) there where breath has entered fivefold; for e...
3.1.10
Whatever state a man whose nature is purified imagines, and whatever desires he desires (for hims...
3.2.1
He (the knower of the Self) knows that highest home of Brahman, in which all is contained and shi...
3.2.2
He who forms desires in his mind, is born again through his desires here and there. But to him wh...
3.2.3
That Self cannot be gained by the Veda, nor by understanding, nor by much learning. He whom the S...
3.2.4
Nor is that Self to be gained by one who is destitute of strength, or without earnestness, or wit...
3.2.5
When they have reached him (the Self), the sages become satisfied through knowledge, they are con...
3.2.6
Having well ascertained the object of the knowledge of the Vedanta, and having purified their nat...
3.2.7
Their fifteen parts enter into their elements, their Devas (the senses) into their (corresponding...
3.2.8
As the flowing rivers disappear in the sea, losing their name and their form, thus a wise man, fr...
3.2.9
He who knows that highest Brahman, becomes even Brahman. In his race no one is born ignorant of B...
3.2.10
And this is declared by the following Rik-verse: `Let a man tell this science of Brahman to those...