Chandogya Upanishad (english Translation)
by Swami Lokeswarananda | 165,421 words | ISBN-10: 8185843910 | ISBN-13: 9788185843919
This is the English translation of the Chandogya-upanishad, including a commentary based on Swami Lokeswarananda鈥檚 weekly discourses; incorporating extracts from Shankara鈥檚 bhasya. The Chandogya Upanishad is a major Hindu philosophical text incorporated in the Sama Veda, and dealing with meditation and Brahman. This edition includes the Sanskrit t...
Verse 2.23.2
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praj膩patirlok膩nabhyatapattebhyo'bhitaptebhyas迟谤补测墨 惫颈诲测腻 蝉补尘辫谤腻蝉谤补惫补迟t膩mabhyatapattasy膩 abhitapt膩y膩 et膩nyak峁r膩峁噄 sampr膩srvanta bh奴r产丑耻惫补岣� svariti || 2.23.2 ||
2. 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 [i.e., 痴颈谤腻峁�] thought about the worlds [he would have]. Out of his thinking, the three Vedas took shape. He then began to think about the Vedas. As a result of this thinking, the Vedas gave birth to the three 惫测腻丑峁泃颈蝉: 产丑奴岣�, 产丑耻惫补岣�, and 蝉惫补岣�.
Word-for-word explanation:
笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈岣� lok膩n abhyatapat, 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 meditated on the worlds; tebhya岣� abhitaptebhya岣�, from [the worlds] which he meditated on; 迟谤补测墨 惫颈诲测腻 蝉补尘辫谤腻蝉谤补惫补迟, emerged the three Vedas; t膩m abhyatapat, [笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈] meditated on them [the three Vedas]; tasy膩岣� abhitapt膩y膩岣�, out of [the Vedas] which he meditated upon; et膩ni ak峁r膩峁噄, these 补办峁谤补蝉 [syllables]; 蝉补尘辫谤腻蝉谤补惫补苍迟补, emerged; bh奴岣� 产丑耻惫补岣� 蝉惫补岣�, bh奴h, 产丑耻惫补岣�, and 蝉惫补岣�; iti, that is all.
Commentary:
How can you attain liberation? You can attain it when you surrender everything for its sake. To make this clear, the story of how the world came into being is narrated:
God (or 痴颈谤腻峁�, or 碍补艣测补辫补) created this world by practising austerities. What kind of austerities? He simply planned the creation in his mind. This planning, this mental exercise, is enough austerity for him. And as thinking is doing for him, whatever he thinks immediately comes into being. The worlds emerge from within him. The first to manifest, however, were the three Vedas: 峁歬, Yaju岣�, and 厂腻尘补. When these emerged, the Creator thought about them, and from the Vedas came the three 惫测腻丑峁泃颈蝉 (lit., utterances): 产丑奴岣�, 产丑耻惫补岣�, and 蝉惫补岣�.
Then from these came Om, the symbol of Brahman. If we concentrate on Om, we attain Brahman. But we have to surrender everything for the sake of Brahman. This is the conclusion to be drawn from this story. Even the Creator has to concentrate on what he is going to create, and he has to surrender everything else.