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Chandogya Upanishad 5.16

Chāndogyopaniṣad 5.16

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Sanskrit

5.16.1

atha hovāca buḍilam āśvatarāśvim \
vaiyāghrapadya kaṃ tvam ātmānam upāssa iti \
apa eva bhagavo rājann iti hovāca \
eṣa vai rayir ātmā vaiśvānaro yaṃ tvam ātmānam upāsse \
tasmāt tvaṃ rayimān puṣṭimān asi \\516.1\

Then the king said to Buḍila Āśvatarāśvi, ‘O Vaiyāghrapadya, what is the Ātman on which you meditate?’ He replied, ‘Water only, O venerable king.’ The king said, ‘This that you meditate upon as Ātman is the Vaiśvānara Ātman known as “the wealth”. Therefore are you endowed with wealth and bodily strength.

Swami Swahananda 1956, The Chāndogya Upaniṣad

5.16.2

atsy annaṃ paśyasi priyam \
atty annaṃ paśyati priyaṃ bhavaty asya brahmavarcasaṃ kule ya etam evam ātmānaṃ vaiśvānaram upāste \
(S ) tv eṣa ātmana iti hovāca \
(S ) te vyabhetsyad yan māṃ nāgamiṣya iti \\516.2\

‘So you eat food and see what is dear. One who thus meditates upon this Vaiśvānara Ātman, 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 lower belly of the Ātman. If you had not come to me your lower belly would have burst.’

Swami Swahananda 1956, The Chāndogya Upaniṣad

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