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    The Mundaka Upanishad (Sanskrit: मुण्डकोपनिषद्, Muṇḍakopaniṣad) is an ancient Sanskrit Vedic text, embedded inside Atharva Veda. It is a Mukhya (primary)...
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    arrow becomes one with the mark. — Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.2 – 2.2.4 Adi Shankara, in his review of the Mundaka Upanishad, states Om as a symbolism for Atman...
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  • Upanishads, influential to various schools of Hindu philosophy. These include the Mundaka Upanishad, the Mandukya Upanishad and the Prashna Upanishad...
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    Brahmacharya, and the Vidhi (law). — Mundaka Upanishad, 2.1.4 - 2.1.7 In the Upanishad, verse 2.2.2, the Mundaka Upanishad claims that Atma-Brahma is real...
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     'Truth alone triumphs') is a part of a mantra from the Hindu scripture Mundaka Upanishad. Following the independence of India, it was adopted as the national...
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    sub-schools of Vedanta. It is classified as a "poetic Upanishad" along with Kena, Katha, Svetasvatara and Mundaka by Paul Deussen (1908). The root of the word...
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  • known — Mundaka Upanishad, 1.1.5 Madhavananda, in his commentary on the Brahmopanishad belonging to the Atharvaveda, explains that, as per the Mundaka Upanishad...
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    canons. Olivelle assigns the Katha Upanishad to the verse Upanishads, together with the Kena, Isha, Svetasvatara, and Mundaka, dating it to the first centuries...
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    BCE Upanishad, composed closer to Shvetashvatara Upanishad, Mundaka Upanishad, and Mahanarayana Upanishad. The manuscripts of this minor Upanishad is sometimes...
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    Prasna Upanishad is unclear and contested. The Mundaka Upanishad, for example, writes Patrick Olivelle, is rather later era ancient Upanishad and is,...
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  • Page 1, publisher Meharchand Lacchmandas Publications, New Delhi Mundaka Upanishad, Translated by Swami Gambhirananda, Published by Advaita Ashram, Kolkata...
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  • excellent be found that knowing it, one knows everything? — Mundaka Upanishad, I.1.3 The Mundaka Upanishad then answers this question in two parts over verses...
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    and that "not rituals, but knowledge should be one's pursuit". The Mundaka Upanishad declares how man has been called upon, promised benefits for, scared...
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  • Principal Upanishads, also known as Mukhya Upanishads, are the most ancient and widely studied Upanishads of Hinduism. Composed between 800 BCE to the...
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    Satya (section Upanishads)
    Translation 3: The true prevails, not the untrue. — Mundaka Upanishad, 3.1.6 Sandilya Upanishad of Atharvanaveda, in Chapter 1, includes ten forbearances...
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    Brahman (section Upanishads)
    which one grasps the imperishable (Brahman)." — Mundaka Upanishad, Hymns 1.1 Elsewhere in the Upanishads, the relationship between Brahman & all knowledge...
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  • of the Upanishads and is called the apara-vidya or 'latter knowledge'. Both para- and apara-vidya constitute brahma-vidya. The Mundaka Upanishad says that...
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    appear in Upanishadic literature, such as Kali in verse 1.2.4 of the Mundaka Upanishad dated to about the 5th century BCE. This single mention describes...
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    Principal Upanishads of Hinduism, as well as the Bhagavad Gita. For example, verse 3.5 of the Maitri Upanishad and verse 2.2.9 of the Mundaka Upanishad contain...
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    places Shvetashvatara Upanishad's chronological composition in the fourth group of ancient Upanishads, after Katha and Mundaka Upanishads. Deussen states that...
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    principal Upanishads: Isha (Īśā) Upanishad Kena (Kena) Upanishad Katha (Kaṭha) Upanishad Prashna (Praśna) Upanishad Mundaka (Muṇḍaka) Upanishad Mandukya...
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    Kena Upanishad as having been composed after Brihadaranyaka, Chandogya, Isha, Taittiriya and Aitareya (pre-6th century BCE), but before Katha, Mundaka, Prasna...
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  • who is himself blind. — Katha Upanishad, Verse 2.5 Mundaka Upanishad references avidya similar to the Katha Upanishad verse 2.5: Wallowing in ignorance...
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    He is referred to as a member of the Bhrigu clan. According to the Mundaka Upanishad and other texts, he was the eldest son and (Manasaputra) born from...
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    The Taittiriya Upanishad (Sanskrit: तैत्तिरीयोपनिषद्, IAST: Taittīriyopaniṣad) is a Vedic era Sanskrit text, embedded as three chapters (adhyāya) of the...
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    सत्यमेव जयते; lit. "Truth alone triumphs"). This is a quote from the Mundaka Upanishad, the concluding part of the sacred Hindu Vedas. Emblem of the Supreme...
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    Hume, Mundaka Upanishad, Thirteen Principal Upanishads, Oxford University Press, pp. 374–375 F. Max Müller (1884), The Upanishads, Part 2, Mundaka Upanishad...
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    Agni (section Upanishads)
    Shaivism text, namely Rudrahridaya Upanishad states that Shiva is same as Agni, and Parvati is same as Svaha. Mundaka Upanishad (2.4) mentioned the seven tongues...
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  • in all the worlds. — Chandogya Upanishad, VIII.5.1 – VIII.5.4 A hymn in another early Upanishad, the Mundaka Upanishad in Book 3, Chapter 1, similarly...
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    (Katha-Upanishad) Questions (Prashna-Upanishad) At the Feet of the Monk (Mundaka-Upanishad) At the Feet of Master Mandooka (Māndookya-Upanishad) From the...
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