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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 1.2.5

Chāndogyopaniṣad 1.2.5

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Sanskrit

1.2.5

atha ha śrotram udgītham upāsāṃ cakrire \
tad dhāsurāḥ pāpmanā vividhuḥ \
tasmāt tenobhayaṃ śṛṇoti śravaṇīyaṃ cāśravaṇīyaṃ ca \
pāpmanā hy etad viddham \\102.5\

5. Then they reverenced the Udgītha as the ear. The devils afflicted that with evil. Therefore with it one hears both what should be listened to and what should not be listened to, for it is afflicted with evil.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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