Dear Harsha,

Not the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad, but the Taittirīya Upaniṣad has the following relevant passage: TU 3.6 - आनन्दो ब्रह्मेति व्यजानात्। आनन्दाध्येव खल्विमानि भूतानि जायन्ते। आनन्देन जातानि जीवन्ति। आनन्दं प्रयन्त्यभिसंविशन्तीति।सैषा भार्गवी वारुणी विद्या। परमे व्योमन्प्रतिष्ठिता

Best wishes,

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande

Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies

Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM Harsha Dehejia via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Friends:

Could you please give me the exact quote in Sanskrit from the Mundaka which goes something like this:

Brahman is joy, through joy it expresses and into joy it returns.

Kind regards,

Harsha

Harsha V. Dehejia

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