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Īśopaniṣad 12

andhaṃ tamaḥ praviśanti ye'sambhūtimupāsatetato bhūya iva te tamo ya u sambhūtyām̐ ratāḥ

Transliteration IAST

andhaṃ tamaḥ praviśanti ye'sambhūtimupāsate | tato bhūya iva te tamo ya u sambhūtyām̐ ratāḥ

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All who worship what is not the true cause, enter into blind darkness: those who delight in the true cause, enter, as it were, into greater darkness.

F. Max MüllerThe Upanishads, 1879 and 1884 · public domain (translation); CC BY-SA 4.0 (transcription)

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  1. English All who worship what is not the true cause, enter into blind darkness: those who delight in the true cause, enter, as it were, into greater darkness. F. Max Müller

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