Chāndogya Upaniṣad 5.3

5.3.1

śvetaketur hāruṇeyaḥ pañcālānāṃ samitim eyāya \
taṃ ha pravāhaṇo jaivalir uvāca \
kumārānu tvā aśiṣat piteti \
anu hi bhagava iti \\503.1\

1. Śvetaketu Āruṇeya attended an assembly of the Pañcālas. Then Pravāhaṇa Jaibali said to him: 'Young man, has your father instructed you?' 'He has indeed, Sir.'

5.3.2

vettha yad ito 'dhi prajāḥ prayantīti \
na bhagava iti \
vettha yathā punar āvartanta3 iti \
na bhagava iti \
vettha pathor devayānasya pitṛyāṇasya ca (S ) iti \
na bhagava iti \\503.2\

2. 'Do you know unto what creatures go forth hence?' 'No, Sir.' 'Do you know how they return again?' 'No, Sir.' 'Do you know the parting of the two ways, one leading to the gods, and one leading to the fathers?' 'No, Sir.'

5.3.3

vettha yathāsau loko na saṃpūryata3 iti \
na bhagava iti \
vettha yathā pañcamyām āhutāv āpaḥ puruṣavacaso bhavantīti \
naiva bhagava iti \\503.3\

3. 'Do you know how [it is that] yonder world is not filled up?' 'No, Sir.' 'Do you know how in the fifth oblation water comes to have a human voice?' 'No, indeed, Sir.'

5.3.4

athānu kim anu śiṣṭho 'vocathā yo hīmāni na vidyāt \
kathaṃ so 'nuśiṣṭo bruvīteti \
sa hāyastaḥ pitur ardham eyāya \
taṃ hovāca ananuśiṣya vāva kila mā bhagavān abravīd anu tvāśiṣam iti \\503.4\

4. 'Now, pray, how did you say of yourself that you had

been instructed? Indeed, how could one who would not know these things speak of himself as having been instructed?'

Distressed, he then went to his father's place. Then he said to him: 'Verily, indeed, without having instructed me, you, Sir, said: "I have instructed you."'

5.3.5

pañca mā rājanyabandhuḥ praśnān aprākṣīt \
teṣāṃ naikaṃcanāśakaṃ vivaktum iti \
sa hovāca yathā mā tvaṃ (S ) avado (S ) eṣāṃ naikaṃcana veda \
yady aham imān avediṣyaṃ kathaṃ te nāvakṣyam iti \\503.5\

5. Five questions a fellow of the princely class (rājanya-bandhu) has asked me. I was not able to explain even one of them.'

Then he [i.e. the father] said: 'As you have told them to me here, I do not know even one of them. If I had known them, how would I not have told them to you?'

5.3.6

sa ha gautamo rājño 'rdham eyāya \
tasmai ha (S ) cakāra \
sa ha prātaḥ sabhāga udeyāya \
taṃ hovāca \
mānuṣasya bhagavan gautama vittasya varaṃ vṛṇīthā iti \
sa hovāca \
tavaiva rājan mānuṣaṃ vittam \
yām eva kumārasyānte vācam abhāṣathās tām eva me brūhīti \
sa ha (S ) \\503.6\

6. Then Gautama went to the king's place. To him, when he arrived, he [i.e. the king] had proper attention shown. Then on the morrow he went up to the audience-hall. Then he [i. e. the king] said to him: 'Honored Gautama, you may choose for yourself a boon of human wealth.'

Then he said: 'Human wealth be yours, O king! The word which you said in the presence of the young man, even that do you speak to me.'

Then he became troubled.

5.3.7

taṃ ha ciraṃ vasety ājñāpayāṃ cakāra \
(S ) hovāca \
yathā mā tvaṃ gautamāvadaḥ \
(S ) na prāk tvattaḥ purā vidyā brāhmaṇān gacchati \
tasmād u sarveṣu lokeṣu kṣatrasyaiva praśāsanam abhūd iti \
tasmai hovāca \\503.7\

7. 'Wait a while,' he commanded him. Then he said: 'As to what you have told me, O Gautama, this knowledge has never yet come to Brahmans before you; and therefore in all the worlds has the rule belonged to the Kshatriya only.' Then he said to him:—