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 4.5.2
ब्रह्मणश्च ते पादं ब्रवाणीति ब्रवीतु मे भगवानिति तस्म� होवा� प्राची दिक्कल� प्रतीची दिक्कल� दक्षिण� दिक्कलोदीची दिक्कलैष वै सोम्� चतुष्कलः पादो ब्रह्मणः प्रकाशवान्ना� � �.�.� �
brahmaṇaśca te pāda� bravāṇīti bravītu me iti tasmai hovāca 峦ī dik첹 īī dik첹 岹ṣiṇ� dikkalodīcī dikkalaiṣa vai somya catuṣkala� pādo brahmaṇa� śԲ峾 || 4.5.2 ||
2. The bull said, ‘Let me also tell you about one foot of Brahman.� Satyakāma replied,’Yes, lord, please tell me.� Then the bull said to him: ‘The east is one part of Brahman, the west is another, the south is another, and the north is yet another. O Somya, this is one foot of Brahman, consisting of four parts. This foot is called Prakāśavān, the shining�.
Word-for-word explanation:
ṇa� ca te pādam bravāṇi iti, [the bull said,] let me also tell you about a foot [a quarter] of Brahman; bravītu me iti, yes, lord, please tell me; tasmai ha uvāca, [the bull] said to him; 峦ī dik 첹, the east is one part [i.e., one sixteenth—a quarter of a quarter]; īī dik 첹, the west is one part; 岹ṣiṇ� dik 첹, the south is one part; ܻīī dik 첹, the north is one part; eṣa� vai somya catuṣkala� pāda� brahmaṇa�, O Somya, this is one foot of Brahman having four parts; ś 峾, it is called Prakāśavān [the shining].
Commentary:
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