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Mundaka Upanishad
The Mundaka Upanishad (Sanskrit: मु क-उपिनषद् ,
Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad) is an ancient Sanskrit Vedic text,
embedded inside Atharva Veda.[1] It is a Mukhya (primary)
Upanishad, and is listed as number 5 in the Muktika canon
of 108 Upanishads of Hinduism. It is among the most
widely translated Upanishads.[1]
It is a poetic verse style Upanishad, with 64 verses, written

in the form of mantras. However, these mantras are not Mundaka Upanishad manuscript page, verses
3.2.8 to 3.2.10, Atharvaveda (Sanskrit,
used in rituals, rather they are used for teaching and
Devanagari script)
meditation on spiritual knowledge.[1]
The Mundaka Upanishad contains three Mundakams

(parts), each with two sections.[2] The first Mundakam, states Roer,[2] defines the science of "Higher
Knowledge" and "Lower Knowledge", and then asserts that acts of oblations and pious gifts are foolish,
and do nothing to reduce unhappiness in current life or next, rather it is knowledge that frees. The
second Mundakam describes the nature of the Brahman, the Self, the relation between the empirical
world and the Brahman, and the path to know Brahman. The third Mundakam expands the ideas in the
second Mundakam and then asserts that the state of knowing Brahman is one of freedom, fearlessness,
complete liberation, self-sufficiency and bliss.[2]
Some scholars[3] suggest that passages in the Mundaka Upanishad present the pantheism theory.
In some historic Indian literature and commentaries, the Mundaka Upanishad is included in the canon
of several verse-structured Upanishads that are together called as Mantra Upanishad and
Mantropanishad.[4]
Contents
Etymology
Chronology
Structure
Content
The higher knowledge versus lower knowledge - First Mundakam
Sacrifices, oblations and pious works are useless, knowledge useful - First Mundakam
Brahman is the inner Self of all things - Second Mundakam
Om, Self and Brahman - Second Mundakam
Reach the highest Oneness in all beings - Third Mundakam
Be ethical, know yourself, be tranquil - Third Mundakam
Reception
Cultural impact
See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundaka_Upanishad 1/12
References
External links
Etymology
Mundaka (Sanskrit: मु क) literally means "shaved (as in shaved head), shorn, lopped trunk of a tree".
Eduard Roer suggests that this root is unclear, and the word as title of the Upanishad possibly refers to
"knowledge that shaves, or liberates, one of errors and ignorance".[5][6] The chapters of the Mundaka
Upanishad are also sequentially referred to as "Mundakam" in ancient and medieval texts, for unclear
etymological reasons.[1][6]
Chronology
The exact chronology of Mundaka Upanishad, like other Vedic texts, is unclear.[7] All opinions rest on
scanty evidence, an analysis of archaism, style and repetitions across texts, driven by assumptions about
likely evolution of ideas, and on presumptions about which philosophy might have influenced which
other Indian philosophies.[7]
Phillips dates Mundaka Upanishad as a relatively later age ancient Upanishad, well after
Brihadaranyaka, Chandogya, Isha, Taittiriya, Aitareya, Kena and Katha.[7] Paul Deussen considers
Mundaka Upanishad to be composed in a period where poetic expression of ideas became a feature of
ancient Indian literary works.[8]
Patrick Olivelle[9] writes: "Both the Mundaka and the Mahanarayana are rather late Upanisads and are,
in all probability, post-Buddhist."
Max Muller states that, given the similarities, either some of the teachings of the Upanishads were
influenced by the doctrine of Buddhism, or Buddhism applied some of the Upanishadic teachings.[1]
Most of the teachings in the Upanishads of Hinduism, including Manduka Upanishad, however, relate to
the existence of Soul and Brahman, and the paths to know, realize one's Soul (Self) and Brahman,
making the fundamental premise of Mundaka Upanishad distinctly different than Buddhism's denial of
"Self or Brahman".[2][10][11]
Some of the ideas and allegories in Mundaka Upanishad have chronological roots in more ancient Vedic
literature such as Brihadaranyaka, Chandogya and Katha Upanishads. The allegory of "blind leading the
blind" in section 1.2 of Mundaka, for example, is also found in Katha Upanishad's chapter 1.2.[12] The
allegory of two birds in section 3.1 of Mundaka Upanishad, similarly, is found in hymns of Rig Veda
chapter I.164.[13]
Structure
The Mundaka Upanishad has three Mundakams (parts, or shavings), each part has two khanda (ख ,
section or volume).[6] The section 1.1 has 9 mantras structured as metered poetic verses. Section 1.2 has
13 verses, section 2.1 includes 10 verses, section 2.2 is composed of 11 verses, section 3.1 has 10, while the
last section 3.2 has 11 verses. Combined, the Upanishad features 64 mantras.[2][14]
Several manuscript versions of Mundaka Upanishad have been discovered so far. These show minor
differences, particularly in the form additional text being inserted and interpolated, the insertion
apparent because these texts do not fit structurally into the metered verses, and also because the same
text is missing in manuscripts discovered elsewhere.[14]
Content
The Mundaka Upanishad opens with declaring Brahma as the first of gods, the creator of the universe,
and the knowledge of Brahman (Ultimate Reality, Eternal Principle, Cosmic Soul) to be the foundation
of all knowledge.[15][16] The text then lists a succession of teachers who shared the knowledge of
Brahman with the next generation.[17] Charles Johnston suggests that this announces the Vedic tradition
of teacher-student responsibility to transfer knowledge across the generations, in unbroken
succession.[18] Johnston further states that the names recited are metaphors, such as the One who
Illuminates, Keeper of Truth, Planetary Spirit, mythological messenger between Gods and Men among
others, suggesting the divine nature and the responsibility of man to continue the tradition of knowledge
sharing across human generations.[18]
The higher knowledge versus lower knowledge - First Mundakam
In verse 1.1.3 of Mundaka Upanishad, a Grihastha (householder) approaches a teacher, and asks,
क ु भगवो िव ाते सविमदं िव ातं भवतीित ॥ ३ ॥
Sir, what is that through which, if it is known, everything else becomes known?
— Mundaka Upanishad, 1.1.3, Translated by Max Müller[15]
The setting of this question is significant, states Johnston, because it asserts that knowledge transfer is
not limited to old teachers to youthful students, rather even adult householders became pupil and sought
knowledge from teachers in Vedic tradition.[18]
The teacher answered, states verse 1.1.4 of the Mundaka Upanishad, by classifying all knowledge into
two: "lower knowledge" and "higher knowledge".[15] Hume calls these two forms of knowledge as
"traditions of religion" and "knowledge of the eternal" respectively.[17]
The lower knowledge, states the Upanishad, includes knowledge of Vedas, phonetics, grammar,
etymology, meter, astronomy and the knowledge of sacrifices and rituals. The higher knowledge is the
knowledge of Brahman and Self-knowledge - the one which cannot be seen, nor seized, which has no
origin, no Varna,[19] no eyes, nor ears, no hands, nor feet, one that is the eternal, all-pervading,
infinitesimal, imperishable, indestructible.[20] Some manuscripts of Manduka Upanishad expand the list
of lower knowledge to include logic, history, Puranas and Dharma.[21]
Sacrifices, oblations and pious works are useless, knowledge useful - First
Mundakam
The first seven mantras of second khanda of first Mundakam explain how man has been called upon,
promised benefits for, scared unto and misled into performing sacrifices, oblations and pious works.[22]
In verses 1.2.7 through 1.2.10, the Upanishad asserts this is foolish and frail, by those who encourage it
and those who follow it, because it makes no difference to man's current life and after-life, it is like blind
men leading the blind, it is a mark of conceit and vain knowledge, ignorant inertia like that of children, a
futile useless practice.[22][23]
But frail, in truth, are those boats, the sacrifices, the eighteen, in which these ceremonies
have been told,
Fools who praise this as the highest good, are subject again and again to old age and death.
Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, and puffed up with vain knowledge,
go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind.
— Mundaka Upanishad, 1.2.7 - 1.2.8[22][23]
The Mundaka Upanishad, in verses 1.2.11 through 1.2.13, asserts knowledge liberates man, and those
who undertake Sannyasa (renunciation) to gain such knowledge achieve that knowledge through Tapas
(meditation, austerity), living a simple tranquil life on alms, without any sacrifices and rituals.[24] In
verse 12 and 13, the Upanishad suggests that "perishable acts cannot lead to eternal knowledge", instead
those who seek freedom must respectfully approach a competent, peace-filled, wise Guru (teacher) to
gain knowledge.[22][25][26]
Brahman is the inner Self of all things - Second Mundakam
Mundaka Upanishad, in the first section of the second Mundakam, defines and expounds on the doctrine
of Atman-Brahman. It asserts that just like a blazing fire creates thousand sparks and leaping flames in
its own form, beings are brought forth from Brahman in its form.[27] The Brahman is imperishable,
without body, it is both without and within, never produced, without mind, without breath, yet from it
emerges the inner Self of all things.[28] From Brahman is born breath, mind, sensory organs, space, air,
light, water, earth, everything. The section expands this idea as follows,[27][28]
The sky is his head, his eyes the sun and the moon,
the quarters his ears, his speech the Vedas disclosed,
the wind his breath, his heart the universe,
from his feet came the earth, he is indeed the inner Self of all things.
From him comes fire, the sun being the fuel,

from the soma comes the rain, from the earth the herbs,
the male pours the seed into the female,
thus many beings are begotten from the Purusha.
From him come the Rig verses, the Saman chants, the Yajus formulae, the Diksha rites,
all sacrifices, all ceremonies and all gifts,
the year too, the sacrificers, the worlds,
where the moon shines brightly, as does sun.
From him, too, gods are manifold produced,

the celestials, the men, the cattle, the birds,
the breathing, the rice, the corn, the meditation,
the Shraddha (faith), the Satya (truth), the Brahmacharya, and the Vidhi (law).
The section continues on, asserting Brahman as the cause of mountains, rivers of every kind, plants,
herbs and all living beings, and it is "the inner Soul that dwells in all beings". Brahman is everything, the
empirical and the abstract, the object, the subject and the action (karma).[27] To know Brahman, is to be
liberated.[29]
This is a form of pantheism theory, that continues into the second section of the second Mundakam of
the Upanishad.[3][30]
Om, Self and Brahman - Second Mundakam
The Mundaka Upanishad, in the second Mundakam, suggests a path to knowing the Self and the
Brahman: meditation, self-reflection and introspection.[31] The verses in the second and third
Mundakams, also assert that the knowledge of soul (self) and Brahman "cannot" be gained from
chanting the Vedas, but only comes from meditation and inner introspection for meaning.[31] Adi
Shankara, in his review of the Mundaka Upanishad, calls the meditation as Yoga.[32]
In verse 2.2.2, the Mundaka Upanishad asserts that Atman-Brahman is the real.[33] In verse 2.2.3 offers
an aid to the meditation process, namely Om (Aum). The poetic verse is structured as a teacher-pupil
conversation, but where the teacher calls the pupil as a friend, as follows,
That which is flaming, which is subtler than the subtle,

on which the worlds are set, and their inhabitants -
That is the indestructible Brahman.[34]
It is life, it is speech, it is mind. That is the real. It is immortal.
It is a mark to be penetrated. Penetrate It, my friend.
Taking as a bow the great weapon of the Upanishad,

one should put upon it an arrow sharpened by meditation, The second part of the
Stretching it with a thought directed to the essence of That, Mundaka Upanishad
Penetrate[35] that Imperishable as the mark, my friend. discusses Om as a
means of meditation
Om is the bow, the arrow is the Soul, Brahman the mark, for self-realization.
By the undistracted man is It to be penetrated,
One should come to be in It,
as the arrow becomes one with the mark.
The Upanishad, in verse 2.2.8 asserts that the man with the knowledge of the soul and who has become
one with Brahman, is liberated, is not affected by karman, is free of sorrow and self-doubts, is one who
lives in bliss.[2][37]
Reach the highest Oneness in all beings - Third Mundakam
The third Mundakam begins with the allegory of two birds, as follows,[38][39]
Two birds, inseparable friends, cling to the same tree.

One of them eats the sweet fruit, the other looks on without eating.
On the same tree man sits grieving, drowned (in sorrow), bewildered, feeling helpless,[40]
But when he sees the other Isa (lord) content, knows his glory, his grief passes away.
When the seer sees the brilliant maker and Isa as the Purusha who has his source in
Brahman,
then he is wise, he shakes off good and evil, stainless he reaches the highest oneness.
Mathur states that this metaphor of the birds sitting on the same tree refers to one being the empirical
self and the other as the eternal and transcendental self.[41] It is the knowledge of eternal self, Atman-
Brahman and its Oneness with all others, that liberates. The Upanishad states in verse 3.1.4 that the Soul
is the life of all things, and there is delight in this Soul (Ātman).[38]
These early verses of the third Mundakam have been variously interpreted. To theist schools of
Hinduism, the Isa is God. To non-theist schools of Hinduism, the Isa is Self. The theosophist Charles
Johnston[42] explains the theistic view, not only in terms of schools of Hinduism, but as a mirroring the
theism found in Christianity and other scriptures around the world. These verses, states Johnston,
describe the sorrow that drowns those who are unaware or feel separated from their Lord.[42] The
disciple, when firmly understands his individuality, reaches for meaning beyond individuality, discovers
Lord, discovers the wonderful complex life of Eternal God, states Johnston, and then he is on the way of
"light of lights". Johnston quotes from Isaiah and Revelation, thus: "The Lord shall be unto thee an
everlasting light, and thy God thy glory".[42]
Adi Shankara's commentary offers, as an example, an alternative interpretation in Hinduism.[43]

Shankara explains the non-dualistic view as follows: "By meditation and different paths of Yoga, man
finds the other, not subject to the bondage of Samsara, unaffected by grief, ignorance, decay and death.
He thinks thus: I am the atman, alike in all, seated in every living thing and not the other; this universe
is mine, the lord of all; then he becomes absolved of all grief, released entirely from the ocean of grief, i.e.
his object is accomplished".[43] This is the state, asserts Shankara, free of grief, when man reaches the
supreme equality which is identity with the Brahman. The equality in matters involving duality in
certainly inferior to this, states Shankara.[43]
Be ethical, know yourself, be tranquil - Third Mundakam
The last section of the Mundaka Upanishad asserts the ethical precepts necessary for man to attain the
knowledge of the Brahman and thus liberation.[38]
स ेन ल पसा ेष आ ास ानेन चयण िन म् ।
Through continuous pursuit of Satya (truthfulness), Tapas (perseverance, austerity),

Samyajñāna (correct knowledge), and Brahmacharya, one attains Atman (Self, Soul).
— Mundaka Upanishad, 3.1.5[44]
Through ethical practices combined with meditation, must a man know his Self. Atman-Brahman is not
perceived, states the Upanishad, by the eye, nor by speech, nor by other senses, not by penance, nor by
karma of rituals.[39] It is known to those whose nature has become purified by the serene light of
knowledge, who meditate on it, who dwell unto it. This is the state, asserts Mundaka Upanishad, when
one's thoughts is integrated and interwoven with one's body and all else. When thoughts are pure, the
Self arises, states verse 3.1.9.[39] This state of man is the state of Bhuti (भूित, inner power, prosperity and
happiness).[45][46]
In the second section of the third Mundakam, the Upanishad asserts, "the soul cannot be realized by
those who lack inner strength, nor by the careless or heedless, nor by devotion or false notions of
austerity, nor by knowledge of the empirical. It is obtained by the soul by which it is desired. His soul
reveals its own truth".[47] Once such self-knowledge is reached, calmness of mind results, a life of
liberation emerges, one becomes and behaves like the Brahman. He is beyond sorrow, he is beyond sin,
he is in tranquil union with the soul of all.[48]
Reception
The Mundaka Upanishad has been widely translated,[1] as well as commented upon in Bhasya by ancient
and medieval era Indian scholars such as Shankara and Anandagiri.[49][50] Mundaka has been one of the
most popular Upanishads, in past and present. Badarayana devotes three out of twenty eight
adhikaranas to Mundaka Upanishad, while Shankara cites it 129 times in his commentary on the
Brahmasutra.[51] Deussen states that this popularity is because of the literary accomplishment, purity in
expression and the beauty of the verses in expressing the profound thoughts that are otherwise shared by
other Upanishads of Hinduism.[52]
Gough calls Mundaka Upanishad as "one of the most important documents in ancient Indian
philosophy".[53] It encapsulates the Vedic teachings, states Gough, that "he that meditates upon any
deity as a being other than himself has no knowledge, and is mere victim to the gods", and "there is no
truth in the many, all truth is in the one; and this one that alone is the Self, the inmost essence of all
things, that vivifies all sentiencies and permeates all things. This is the pure bliss, and it dwells within
the heart of every creature".[53]
Ross, in his chapters on "meaning of life in Hinduism", frequently cites Mundaka Upanishad, and states
it to be an example of ancient efforts in India to refine tools and discipline of realizing liberation or
Moksha.[54]
Johnston states that the ancient message in Mundaka Upanishad is relevant to the modern age where
"search for and application of Truth" alone often predominates the fields of science. Mundaka
Upanishad reminds the central importance of Truth in its third Mundakam, yet it also emphasizes the
need for "beauty and goodness", because "truth, beauty and goodness" together, states Johnston, create
arts, music, poetry, painting, meaning and spiritual answers.[55]
Jacobs has called Mundaka Upanishad as profound, and counts it as one of the essential philosophical
foundations of Hinduism.[56]
Cultural impact
The Mundaka Upanishad is the source of the phrase Satyameva Jayate, which is the national motto of
India. It appears in its national emblem with four lions.
े े
स मेव जयते नानृतं[57]

Translation 1: Only Truth triumphs, not falsehood.[58]
Translation 2: Truth ultimately triumphs, not falsehood.[59]
Translation 3: The true prevails, not the untrue.[39]
— Mundaka Upanishad, 3.1.6[46]
See also
Upanishads
Vedas
Brahman
Atman Emblem of India with
Moksha tagline phrase from
the Mundaka
Hinduism
Upanishad.
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Text and translation
The Mundaka Upanishad with Shankara’s Commentary (https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/m

undaka-upanishad-shankara-bhashya/index.html) Translated by S. Sitarama Sastri, online ebook
Mundaka Upanishad (http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/#section_002) Max Muller (Translator),
The Sacred Books of the East, Volume 15, Oxford University Press
Mundaka Upanishad (https://archive.org/stream/thirteenprincipa028442mbp#page/n387/mode/2up)
Robert Hume (Translator), Oxford University Press
Mundaka Upanishad in ITRANS (http://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_upanishhat/mundaka.itx)
Multiple translations (Raja Ram Mohun Roy, Johnston, Nikhilānanda, Gambhirananda) (http://www.u
niversaltheosophy.com/legacy/movements/ancient-east/vedic-india/mundaka-upanishad/)
Mundaka Upanishad (Sanskrit) (http://sanskritdocuments.org/all_pdf/mundaka.pdf) in Devanāgarī
script
Mundaka Upanishad (http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/indian/upanishads/mundaka.html)
Sanderson Beck (Translator)
Mundaka Upanishad (http://www.bharatadesam.com/spiritual/upanishads/mundaka_upanishad.php)
Another archive of Nikhilānanda translation
Recitation
Mundak Upanishad recited by Pt. Ganesh Vidyalankar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG-C-Fzc

OlE&list=PLzz9KpK4CcMMRNzBr95tQeuOEl9RJW8Ao)
Mundaka Upanishad (https://librivox.org/search?title=Upanishad&author=&reader=&keywords=&g
enre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_
page=1&search_form=advanced) public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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It is a poetic verse style Upanishad, with 64 verses, written

The Mundaka Upanishad contains three Mundakams

The higher knowledge versus lower knowledge - First Mundakam

क ु भगवो िव ाते सविमदं िव ातं भवतीित ॥ ३ ॥

— Mundaka Upanishad, 1.1.3, Translated by Max Müller[15]

— Mundaka Upanishad, 1.2.7 - 1.2.8[22][23]

Brahman is the inner Self of all things - Second Mundakam

From him comes fire, the sun being the fuel,

From him, too, gods are manifold produced,

— Mundaka Upanishad, 2.1.4 - 2.1.7[27][28]

Om, Self and Brahman - Second Mundakam

That which is flaming, which is subtler than the subtle,

Taking as a bow the great weapon of the Upanishad,

— Mundaka Upanishad, 2.2.2 - 2.2.4[33][36]

Reach the highest Oneness in all beings - Third Mundakam

Two birds, inseparable friends, cling to the same tree.

— Mundaka Upanishad, 3.1.1 - 3.1.2[38][39]

Adi Shankara's commentary offers, as an example, an alternative interpretation in Hinduism.[43]

Be ethical, know yourself, be tranquil - Third Mundakam

स ेन ल पसा ेष आ ास ानेन चयण िन म् ।

Through continuous pursuit of Satya (truthfulness), Tapas (perseverance, austerity),

— Mundaka Upanishad, 3.1.5[44]

स मेव जयते नानृतं[57]

— Mundaka Upanishad, 3.1.6[46]

31. Eduard Roer, Mundaka Upanishad (https://www.shemtaia.com/SKT/PDF/Upanishads/roermundakae

The Mundaka Upanishad with Shankara’s Commentary (https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/m

Mundak Upanishad recited by Pt. Ganesh Vidyalankar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG-C-Fzc

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