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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 2 · Brāhmaṇa 4

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 2.4.2

सा होवाच मैत्रेयी -- यन् नु म इयं भगोः सर्वा पृथिवी वित्तेन पूर्णा स्यात् कथं तेनामृता स्याम् इति ।
नेति होवाच याज्ञवल्क्यः ।
यथैवोपकरणवतां जीवितं तथैव ते जीवितं स्यात् ।
अमृतत्वस्य तु नाशास्ति वित्तेनेति ॥

sā hovāca maitreyī -- yan nu ma iyaṃ bhagoḥ sarvā pṛthivī vittena pūrṇā syāt kathaṃ tenāmṛtā syām iti ।
neti hovāca yājñavalkyaḥ ।
yathaivopakaraṇavatāṃ jīvitaṃ tathaiva te jīvitaṃ syāt ।
amṛtatvasya tu nāśāsti vitteneti ॥

Maitreyî said: 'My Lord, if this whole earth, full of wealth, belonged to me, tell me, should I be immortal by it?' 'No,' replied Yâgñavalkya; 'like the life of rich people will be thy life. But there is no hope of immortality by wealth.'

F. Max Müller · The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East 15 (1884)

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