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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 4 · Brāhmaṇa 5

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 4.5.3

सा होवाच मैत्रेयी --
यन् नु म इयम् भगोः सर्वा पृथिवी वित्तेन पूर्णा स्यात् स्यां न्व् अहं तेनामृताहो३ नेति ।
नेति होवाच याज्ञवल्क्यः ।
यथैवोपकरणवतां जीवितम् ।
तथैव ते जीवितं स्यात् ।
अमृतत्वस्य तु नाशास्ति वित्तेनेति ॥

sā hovāca maitreyī --
yan nu ma iyam bhagoḥ sarvā pṛthivī vittena pūrṇā syāt syāṃ nv ahaṃ tenāmṛtāho3 neti ।
neti hovāca yājñavalkyaḥ ।
yathaivopakaraṇavatāṃ jīvitam ।
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, or no?' '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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