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Chandogya Upanishad 5.1.11

Chāndogyopaniṣad 5.1.11

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Sanskrit

5.1.11

mano hoccakrāma \
tat saṃvatsaraṃ proṣya paryetyovāca katham aśakatarte maj jīvitum iti \
yathā bālā (S ) prāṇantaḥ prāṇena vadanto vācā paśyantaś cakṣuṣā śṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇaivam iti \
praviveśa ha manaḥ \\501.11\

The mind departed. Staying a year out it came back and asked, 'How have you been able to live without me?' 'Just like infants without developed minds, yet living with the breath, speaking with the organ of speech, seeing with the eye, and hearing with the ear.' At this the mind entered the body.

Swami Swahananda 1956, The Chāndogya Upaniṣad

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