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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’s weekly discourses; incorporating extracts from Shankara’s 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 4.4.1

सत्यकामो � जाबालो जबालां मातरमामन्त्रयांचक्रे ब्रह्मचर्य� भवति विवत्स्याम� किंगोत्र� न्वहमस्मीति � �.�.� �

satyakāmo ha jābālo jabālā� mātaramāmantrayāṃcakre brahmacarya� bhavati ٲ峾 kiṃgotro nvahamasmīti || 4.4.1 ||

1. Once Satyakāma said to his mother Jabālā: ‘Revered mother, I would like to live with a teacher as a celibate student. What is my lineage?�.

Word-for-word explanation:

ٲⲹ峾� ha, once Satyakāma ; jabālām mātaram āmantrayāñcakre, said to his mother Jabālā; brahmacaryam bhavati ٲ峾, O revered mother, I want to live as a 󳾲 [with a teacher]; kim gotra� nu aham asmi iti, what is my lineage?

Commentary:

To attain Self-realization, one has to practise austerities, study the scriptures, and live a life of self-discipline. The story of Satyakāma illustrates this.

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