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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 3 · Brāhmaṇa 2

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 3.2.12

याज्ञवल्क्येति होवाच -- यत्रायं पुरुषो म्रियते ।
किम् एनं न जहातीति ।
नामेति ।
अनन्तं वै नामानन्ता विश्वे देवाः ।
अनन्तम् एव स तेन लोकं जयति ॥

yājñavalkyeti hovāca -- yatrāyaṃ puruṣo mriyate ।
kim enaṃ na jahātīti ।
nāmeti ।
anantaṃ vai nāmānantā viśve devāḥ ।
anantam eva sa tena lokaṃ jayati ॥

'Yâgñavalkya,' he said, 'when such a man dies, what does not leave him?' 'The name,' he replied; 'for the name is endless, the Visvedevas are endless, and by it he gains the endless world.'

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

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