Mundaka Upanishad

The Mundaka Upanishad is one of the principal Upanishads. It consists of three sections.

Quotes



 * 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