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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 4.6

Chāndogyopaniṣad 4.6

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Sanskrit

4.6.1

agniṣ ṭe pādaṃ vakteti \
sa ha śvo bhūte gā abhiprasthāpayāṃ cakāra \
tā yatra abhisāyaṃ babhūvus tatra agnim upasamādhāya gā uparudhya samidham ādhāya paścād agneḥ prāṅ upopaviveśa \\406.1\

1. Fire will tell you a quarter.’ He then, when it was the morrow, drove the cows on. Where they came at evening, there he built a fire, penned in the cows, laid on fuel, and sat down to the west of the fire, facing the east.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.6.2

tam agnir abhyuvāda satyakāma3 iti \
bhagava iti ha pratiśuśrāva \\406.2\

2. The fire spoke to him, saying: ‘Satyakāma!’ ‘Sir!’ he replied.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.6.3

brahmaṇaḥ somya te pādaṃ bravāṇīti \
bravītu me bhagavān iti \
tasmai ha uvāca \
pṛthivī kalā \
antarikṣaṃ kalā \
dyauḥ kalā \
samudraḥ kalā \
eṣa vai somya catuṣkalaḥ pādo brahmaṇo 'nantavān nāma \\406.3\

3. ‘Let me tell you, my dear, a quarter of Brahma.’ ‘Tell me, Sir.’ To him it then said: ‘One sixteenth is the earth. One sixteenth is the atmosphere. One sixteenth is the sky. One sixteenth is the ocean. This, verily, my dear, is the quarter of Brahma, consisting of four sixteenths, named the Endless.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.6.4

sa ya etam evaṃ vidvāṃś catuṣkalaṃ pādaṃ brahmaṇo 'nantavān ity upāste anantavān asmiṃl loke bhavati \
anantavato ha lokāñ jayati ya etam evaṃ vidvāṃś catuṣkalaṃ pādaṃ brahmaṇo 'nantavān ity upāste \\406.4\

4. He who, knowing it thus, reverences a quarter of Brahma, consisting of four sixteenths, as the Endless, becomes endless in this world. Then he wins endless worlds who, knowing it thus, reverences a quarter of Brahma, consisting of four sixteenths, as the Endless.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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