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Chandogya Upanishad 4.7

Chāndogyopaniṣad 4.7

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Sanskrit

4.7.1

haṃsas te pādaṃ vakteti \
sa ha śvo bhūte gā abhiprasthāpayāṃ cakāra \
tā yatra abhisāyaṃ babhūvus tatra agnim upasamādhāya gā uparudhya samidham ādhāya paścād agneḥ prāṅ upopaviveśa \\407.1\

1. A swan 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 the fuel, and sat down to the west of the fire, facing the east.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.7.2

taṃ haṃsa upanipatya abhyuvāda satyakāma3 iti \
bhagava iti ha pratiśuśrāva \\407.2\

2. A swan flew down to him, and spoke to him, saying: ‘Satyakāma!’ ‘Sir!’ he replied.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.7.3

brahmaṇaḥ somya te pādaṃ bravāṇi iti \
bravītu me bhagavān iti \
tasmai ha uvāca \
agniḥ kalā \
sūryaḥ kalā \
candraḥ kalā \
vidyut kalā \
eṣa vai somya catuṣkalaḥ pādo brahmaṇo jyotiṣmān nāma \\407.3\

3. ‘Let me tell you, my dear, a quarter of Brahma.’ ‘Tell me, Sir.’ To him it then said: ‘One sixteenth is fire. One sixteenth is the sun. One sixteenth is the moon. One sixteenth is lightning. This, verily, my dear, is the quarter of Brahma, consisting of four sixteenths, named the Luminous.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

4.7.4

sa ya etam evaṃ vidvāṃś catuṣkalaṃ pādaṃ brahmaṇo jyotiṣmān ity upāste jyotiṣmān asmiṃl loke bhavati \
jyotiṣmato ha lokāñ jayati ya etam evaṃ vidvāṃś catuṣkalaṃ pādaṃ brahmaṇo jyotiṣmān ity upāste \\407.4\

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

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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