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वेदान्तविज्ञानसुनिश्चितार्थाः
संन्यासयोगाद् यतयः शुद्धसत्त्वाः ।
ते ब्रह्मलोकेषु परान्तकाले
परामृताः परिमुच्यन्ति सर्वे ॥ ६॥
vedāntavijñānasuniścitārthāḥ
saṃnyāsayogād yatayaḥ śuddhasattvāḥ .
te brahmalokeṣu parāntakāle
parāmṛtāḥ parimucyanti sarve .. 6..
6 Having well ascertained the Self, the goal of the Vedantic knowledge and having purified their minds through the practice of sannyasa, the seers, never relaxing their efforts, enjoy here supreme Immortality and at the time of the great end attain complete freedom in Brahman.

Mundaka Upanishad Introduction
Mundaka Upanishad Invocation
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 1 – Verse 1
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 1 – Verse 2
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 1 – Verse 3
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 1 – Verse 4
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 1 – Verse 5
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 1 – Verse 6
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 1 – Verse 7
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 1 – Verse 8
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 1 – Verse 9
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 1
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 2
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 3
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 4
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 5
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 6
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 7
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 8
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 9
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 10
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 11
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 12
Mundaka 1 – Chapter 2 – Verse 13
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 1 – Verse 1
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 1 – Verse 2
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 1 – Verse 3
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 1 – Verse 4
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 1 – Verse 5
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 1 – Verse 6
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 1 – Verse 7
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 1 – Verse 8
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 1 – Verse 9
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 10
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 1
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 2
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 3
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 4
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 5
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 6
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 7
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 8
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 9
Mundaka 2 – Chapter 2 – Verse 10
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 1 – Verse 11
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 1 – Verse 1
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 1 – Verse 2
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 1 – Verse 3
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 1 – Verse 4
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 1 – Verse 5
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 1 – Verse 6
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 1 – Verse 7
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 1 – Verse 8
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 1 – Verse 9
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 10
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 1
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 2
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 3
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 4
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 5
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 6
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 7
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 8
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 9
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 10
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 11
Mundaka 3 – Chapter 2 – Verse 12

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Sri Shankara’s Commentary (Bhashya) translated by S. Sitarama Sastri

Having without doubt determined the object of the knowledge of Vedanta, i.e., that Brahman should be known, the seekers, their minds purified by dint of renunciation of all karma and by being centred in the pure Brahman, attain the worlds of the Brahman at the end of samsara, which for the seekers after emancipation corresponds to the time of death of those rotating in samsara. As men who seek emancipation are many, the world of Brahman, though one, appears to be many or is reached as many; so, the plural number ‘worlds of the Brahman’ is used. Brahman being the world reached, the expression ‘in the worlds of the Brahman’ means ‘in Brahman.’ Paramritah, they whose atman has become the highest immortal, i.e., Brahman. They become the highest and immortal Brahman, even during life and are absolved in all sides like a lamp that has gone out and like the akas in the pot, i.e., they have no need of any other place to go to; for, the Sruti and the Smriti say “as the footmark of birds in the air and that of aquatic animals in water are not seen, so the track of the knowing men” and they go by no road, who would reach the ends of the roads of samsara. Motion limited by place is only in samsara, because it is accomplished by means limited; but as the Brahman is all, it cannot be reached in a limited space; if the Brahman were limited in respect of place, it would like a substance having form, have a beginning and an end, be dependent on another, composed of parts, non-eternal and be a product. But the Brahman cannot be like that; so, its attainment too, cannot be limited by conditions of place.


Mundaka Upanishad – Verse 6 – Mundaka-3-2-6-vedāntavijñāna – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Meaning and Commentary by Adi Shankaracharya (Sankara Bhashya) – Mundaka-3-2-6