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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 6.15.1

पुरुषं सोम्योतोपतापिन� ज्ञातय� पर्युपासते जानासि मा� जानासि मामिति तस्य यावन्न वाङ्मनसि सम्पद्यत� मन� प्राणे प्राणस्तेजसि तेजः परस्या� देवतायां तावज्जानात� � �.१५.� �

puruṣa� somyotopatāpina� ñٲⲹ� paryupāsate jānāsi mā� jānāsi māmiti tasya yāvanna vāṅmanasi sampadyate Բ� ṇe ṇastejasi ٱᲹ� parasyā� devatāyā� tāvajjānāti || 6.15.1 ||

1. When a person is seriously ill, O Somya, his relatives sit around him and ask: ‘Do you recognize me? Do you recognize me?� So long as his speech does not merge with his mind, his mind with his ṇa, his ṇa with the heat in his body, and the heat with the Supreme Self, he will be able to recognize them.

Word-for-word explanation:

ʳܰṣa, a person; uta, also; somya, O Somya; ܱ貹辱Բ, who is sick; ñٲⲹ�, relatives; 貹-ܱٱ, sit around him; jānāsi mām jānāsi mām iti, saying ‘Do you recognize me, do you recognize me?�; 屹�, so long as; tasya, his; , speech; manasi na sampadyate, does not merge in his mind; Բ� ṇe, the mind into ṇa; ṇa� tejasi, ṇa into heat; ٱᲹ� parasyām devatāyām, heat into the Supreme Deity; tāvat jānāti, that long he knows [them].

Commentary:

The 貹Ծṣa has previously said that from the Self comes heat, from heat comes ṇa (the life force), from ṇa comes the mind, and from the mind comes speech. Then at the time of death, these things go back in the reverse order—speech goes back into the mind, etc. The resting place is the Self, Pure Spirit. Everything goes back there, and everything comes from there.

When a person is dying, it is common for his relatives to gather round and ask the person, ‘Do you recognize me?� How long does he recognize them? So long as heat has not left the body. Even though his breathing has stopped, as long as the body is warm, the person is still alive.

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