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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6.16

Chāndogyopaniṣad 6.16

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Sanskrit

6.16.1

puruṣaṃ somyota hastagṛhītam ānayanti \
apahārṣīt steyam akārṣīt paraśum asmai tapateti \
sa yadi tasya kartā bhavati tata evānṛtam ātmānaṃ kurute \
so 'nṛtābhisaṃdho 'nṛtenātmānam antardhāya paraśuṃ taptaṃ pratigṛhṇāti \
sa dahyate \
atha hanyate \\616.1\

1. 'And also, my dear, they lead up a man seized by the hand, and call: "He has stolen! He has committed a theft! Heat the ax for him!"' If he is the doer of the deed, thereupon he makes himself (ātmānam) untrue. Speaking untruth, he covers himself with untruth. He seizes hold of the heated ax, and is burned. Then he is slain.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

6.16.2

atha yadi tasyākartā bhavati \
tata eva satyam ātmānaṃ kurute \
sa satyābhisandhaḥ satyenātmānam antardhāya paraśuṃ taptaṃ pratigṛhṇāti \
sa na dahyate \
atha mucyate \\616.2\

2. But if he is not the doer of the deed, thereupon he makes himself true. Speaking truth, he covers himself with truth. He seizes hold of the heated ax, and is not burned. Then he is released.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

6.16.3

sa yathā tatra nādāhyeta \
etad ātmyam idaṃ sarvam \
tat satyam \
sa ātmā \
tat tvam asi śvetaketo iti \
tad dhāsya vijajñāv iti vijajñāv iti \\616.3\

3. As in this case he would not be burned [because of the truth], so this whole world has that [truth] as its soul. That is Reality. That is Ātman (Soul). That art thou, Śvetaketu.' Then he understood it from him—yea, he understood.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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