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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad / Adhyāya 6 · Brāhmaṇa 1

BṚHADĀRAṆYAKA UPANISHAD · 6.1.7

ते हेमे प्राणा अहंश्रेयसे विवदमाना ब्रह्म जग्मुः ।
तद् धोचुः -- को नो वसिष्ठ इति ।
तद् धोवाच -- यस्मिन् व उत्क्रान्त इदं शरीरं पापियो मन्यते स वो वसिष्ठ इति ॥

te heme prāṇā ahaṃśreyase vivadamānā brahma jagmuḥ ।
tad dhocuḥ -- ko no vasiṣṭha iti ।
tad dhovāca -- yasmin va utkrānta idaṃ śarīraṃ pāpiyo manyate sa vo vasiṣṭha iti ॥

These Prânas (senses), when quarrelling together as to who was the best, went to Brahman and said: 'Who is the richest of us?' He replied: 'He by whose departure this body seems worst, he is the richest.'

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

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