Mundaka Upanishad

The Mundaka Upanishad is one of the principal Upanishads. It consists of three sections. Quotes Olivelle Patrick The Early Upanishads Oxford University Press Oxford 1998 0-19-512435-9 As a spider spins out threads, then draws them into itself; As plants sprout out from the earth; As head and body hair grows from a living man; So from the imperishable all things here spring. 1.1.7 What cannot be seen, what cannot be grasped, without color, without sight or hearing, without hands or feet; What is eternal and all-pervading, extremely minute, present everywhere— That is the immutable, which the wise fully perceive. 1.6 Two birds, companions and friends, nestle on the very same tree. One of them eats a tasty fig; the other, not eating, looks on. Stuck on the very same tree, one person grieves, deluded by her who is not the Lord; But when he sees the other, the contented Lord—and his majesty— his grief disappears. 3.1.1-2 Not by sight, not by speech, nor by any other sense; nor by austerities or rites is he grasped. Rather the partless one is seen by a man, as he meditates, when his being has become pure, through the lucidity of knowledge. 3.1.8 As the rivers flow on and enter into the ocean giving up their names and appearances; So the knower, freed from name and appearance, reaches the heavenly Person, beyond the very highest. 3.2.8 External links Category:Upanishads