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 5.1.5
啶 啶� 啶掂ぞ 啶嗋く啶むえ啶� 啶掂啶︵ぞ啶い啶ㄠ 啶� 啶膏啶掂ぞ啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶さ啶むた 啶え啷� 啶� 啶掂ぞ 啶嗋く啶むえ啶 啷� 啷�.啷�.啷� 啷�
yo ha v膩 腻测补迟补苍补峁� ved腻测补迟补苍补峁� ha sv膩n膩峁� bhavati mano ha v膩 腻测补迟补苍补尘 || 5.1.5 ||
5. He who knows the abode becomes the shelter of his family. The mind is the abode.
Word-for-word explanation:
Ya岣� ha vai, he who; 腻测补迟补苍补尘 veda, knows the abode; 腻测补迟补苍补尘 ha sv膩n膩m bhavati, becomes the abode [i.e., shelter] of his family; 尘补苍补岣� ha vai 腻测补迟补苍补尘, the mind is surely the abode.
Commentary:
There is something in the body-mind complex of human beings called 腻测补迟补苍补. If a person knows this 鈥樐宀獠钩俨共圆�,鈥� it is to be understood that he is a wise person. And such a person is able to serve as an 腻测补迟补苍补 to his own relatives. That is to say, he is
The mind is the 腻测补迟补苍补 of the body-mind complex. Why? Because the sense organs have their experiences, but all those experiences take shelter in the mind.