Asato ma sad gamaya, one of the best known prayers in Hinduism, and its immediate gloss by the text itself. Muller's footnote marker is removed and the sentence is joined across a page break. In context it is a liturgical instruction: these are verses the sacrificer recites while the priest begins to sing.
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TextLead me from the unreal to the real! Lead me from darkness to light! Lead me from death to immortality! Now when he says, 'Lead me from the unreal to the real,' the unreal is verily death, the real immortality. 1 ReferenceBrihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28 1 Reference SchemeCollection, Book, Section 1 Translation
TranslationThe Upanishads (Sacred Books of the East, vols. 1 and 15) 1 Connections
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Source The Upanishads (Sacred Books of the East, vols. 1 and 15)F. Max Muller
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1. The Upanishads (Sacred Books of the East, vols. 1 and 15)
F. Max Muller, Clarendon Press / Internet Sacred Text Archive, 1879Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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