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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 3 · Brāhmaṇa 2

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 3.2.7

मनो वै ग्रहः ।
स कामेनातिग्रहेण गृहीतः ।
मनसा हि कामान् कामयते ॥

mano vai grahaḥ ।
sa kāmenātigraheṇa gṛhītaḥ ।
manasā hi kāmān kāmayate ॥

'The mind is one Graha, and that is seized by desire as the Atigrâha, for with the mind one desires desires.'

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

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