Chandogya Upanishad 4.12
Chāndogyopaniṣad 4.12
- Language
- Sanskrit
4.12.1
atha ha enam anvāhāryapacano 'nuśaśāsa āpo diśo nakṣatrāṇi candramā iti \
ya eṣa candramasi puruṣo dṛṣyate so 'ham asmi sa eva aham asmi iti \\412.1\
Then the Anvāhāryapacana fire instructed him: 'Water, the quarters, the stars and the moon (are my forms). The person who is seen in the moon, I am he, I am he, indeed.
4.12.2
sa ya etam evaṃ vidvān upāste \
apahate pāpakṛtyām \
lokī bhavati \
sarvam āyur eti \
jyog jīvati \
na asya avarapuruṣāḥ kṣīyante \
upa vayaṃ taṃ bhuñjāmo 'smiṃś ca loke amuṣmiṃś ca \
ya etam evaṃ vidvān upāste \\412.2\
'He who knows it thus and meditates on it, destroys sinful acts, wins the region (of fire), reaches the full length of life, lives gloriously, and his descendants never perish. We protect him in this world and in the next who knows it thus and meditates on it.'
Translations (5)
- The Chāndogya Upaniṣad — Swami Swahananda 1956, English
- The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
- The Upanishads — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
- Chāndogya Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Gambhirananda 1983, English
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
Commentaries (8)
- Chāndogyopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Chāndogya Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Gambhirananda 1983, English
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha, Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya of Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha — Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha, Sanskrit
Discussed in (2)
- The History and Culture of the Indian People — Majumdar et al. 1951, English
- The Religions of India — Hopkins 1895, English