A prayer from the ritual of the vital breath
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28
Source: verified public-domain translation.
Original text
असतो मा सद्गमय । तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय । मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।
Transliteration
asato mā sad gamaya | tamaso mā jyotir gamaya | mṛtyor mā amṛtaṃ gamaya |
Translation
“From the unreal lead me to the real. From darkness lead me to light. From death lead me to immortality.”
Translation · F. Max Müller
Context
A liturgical prayer within a larger chapter on the vital breath and the gods. It is widely known independently of that ritual setting. 'Unreal' (asat) in Vedantic reading is not 'fictional feelings'.