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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 6.4.7

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yadvavijñÄtamivÄbhÅ«dityetÄsÄmeva devatÄnÄṃsamÄsa iti tadvidÄṃcakrur²â²¹³Ù³óÄå tu khalu somyemÄstisro devatÄá¸� puruá¹£aá¹� ±è°ùÄå±è²â²¹ ³Ù°ù¾±±¹á¹›ttrivá¹›dekaikÄ bhavati tanme vijÄnÄ«hÄ«ti || 6.4.7 ||
|| iti caturthaá¸� khaṇá¸aá¸� ||

7. And whatever else was not properly known they understood was the combination of those three deities [fire, water, and earth]. O Somya, now learn from me how these three deities enter into a person and become threefold.

Word-for-word explanation:

Yat u avijñÄtam iva abhÅ«t iti, and whatever they saw that was not properly known; ²õ²¹³¾Äå²õ²¹á¸� iti, the combination; etÄsÄm eva devatÄnÄm, of these deities [fire, water, and earth]; tat vidÄñcakruá¸�, that they knew; somya, my son; ²â²¹³Ù³óÄå, as to how; imÄá¸� khalu nu, these very; tisraá¸� devatÄá¸�, three deities; ±è³Ü°ù³Üá¹£a³¾, a living being; ±è°ùÄå±è²â²¹, entering [as food]; ³Ù°ù¾±±¹á¹›t ³Ù°ù¾±±¹á¹›t ekaikÄ bhavati, each one becomes threefold; tat me vijÄnÄ«hi iti, learn that from me. Iti caturthaá¸� khaṇá¸aá¸�, here ends the fourth section.

Commentary:

Previously the scholars did not know these deities—the three elements—separately. They began to understand better when they saw the elements working in living beings.

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