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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28: From Darkness, Lead Me to Light
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Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. A prayer for hope in despair.
“asato mā sad gamaya, tamaso mā jyotir gamaya, mṛtyor māmṛtaṁ gamaya”
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28 · Shukla Yajur Veda (the Pavamana Mantra)Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.
A seeker's prayer within the Upanishad — a cry to be led from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.
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Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.
A seeker's prayer within the Upanishad — a cry to be led from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.
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Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28 · Shukla Yajur Veda (the Pavamana Mantra).) Godify shows this verse verbatim from a verified corpus with its exact source, never a paraphrase passed off as the original.
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