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Chandogya Upanishad 5.1.7

Chāndogyopaniṣad 5.1.7

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Sanskrit

5.1.7

te ha prāṇāḥ prajāpatiṃ pitaram etyocuḥ bhagavan ko naḥ śreṣṭha iti \
tān hovāca \
yasmin va utkrānte śarīraṃ pāpiṣṭhataram iva dṛśyeta sa vaḥ śreṣṭha iti \\501.7\

7. Those Vital Breaths went to Father Prajāpati, and said: ‘Sir! Which of us is the most superior?’ He said to them: ‘That one of you after whose going off the body appears as if it were the very worst off—he is the most superior of you.’

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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