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The Mundaka Upanisad
Chapter One
6. ‘Saying, Come! Come!, the radiant offerings
Carry the patron of the sacrifice by the rays of the sun,
Greeting and praising him with kind words:
This is your pure world of Brahman, well-won.
7. ‘But the eighteen forms of sacrifice are unsteady boats,
In which is what is called lower action.
The foolish who delight in that as best
Go on to old age and death again.
8. ‘Living in the midst of ignorance,
Wise in their own view, thinking themselves learned,
The foolish roam about,
Like blind men led by one who is blind.
9. ‘Living in many kinds of ignorance,
Childish, they think they have achieved their end,
Since, through passion, the doers of works do not know,
In distress they fall down when their worlds are exhausted.
10. ‘The foolish, believing stored-up merit the highest things,
Proclaim there is nothing better.
After winning to heaven’s back, well-won,
They enter this world or a lower one again.
11. ‘But those who in the forest practise asceticism and faith,
At peace, ones who know, following the way of alms,
Free of passion, go through the door of the sun
To where is the person of unfailing self.
12. ‘Seeing the worlds built up through action, the Brahmana
Has achieved detachment. (Not through the made is the unmade.)
To know it he should with fuel in hand
Approach a guru, learned and established in Brahman.
13. ‘He, knowing it, teaches to the one who has
approached him rightly.
Whose mind is peaceful, who has attained peace,
The truth by which one knows the imperishable person,
The knowledge of Brahman in its reality.
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