Chandogya Upanishad 5.12
Chāndogyopaniṣad 5.12
- Language
- Sanskrit
5.12.1
aupamanyava kaṃ tvam ātmānam upāssa iti \
divam eva bhagavo rājann iti hovāca \
eṣa vai sutejā ātmā vaiśvānaro yaṃ tvam ātmānam upāsse \
tasmāt tava sutaṃ prasutam āsutaṃ kule dṛśyate \\512.1\
'O Aupamanyava, what is the Ātman on which you meditate?' He replied, 'Heaven only, O venerable king.' The king said, 'This that you meditate upon as Ātman is the Vaiśvānara Ātman known as "the highly luminous". Therefore in your family are seen the Suta, Prasuta and Āsuta libations of Soma-juice.
5.12.2
atsy annaṃ paśyasi priyam \
atty annaṃ paśyati priyam bhavaty asya brahmavarcasaṃ kule ye etam evam ātmānaṃ vaiśvānaram upāste \
mūdhā tv eṣa ātmana iti hovāca \
mūrdhā te vyapatiṣyad yan māṃ nāgamiṣya iti \\512.2\
'So you eat food and see what is dear. One who meditates on this Vaiśvānara Ātman thus, eats food and sees what is dear, and there is in his family the holy effulgence born of sacred wisdom. But this is only the head of the Ātman. If you had not come to me your head would have fallen down.'
Translations (5)
- The Chāndogya Upaniṣad — Swami Swahananda 1956, English
- The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
- Chāndogya Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Gambhirananda 1983, English
- The Upanishads — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
Commentaries (7)
- Chāndogyopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni 1500, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya of Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha — Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
Discussed in (4)
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Deussen & Geden 1899, English
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Keith 1925, English
- Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch — Eliot 1921, English
- Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge — Jayatilleke 1963, English