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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 6.3

Chāndogyopaniṣad 6.3

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Sanskrit

6.3.1

teṣāṃ khalv eṣāṃ bhūtānāṃ trīṇy eva bījāni bhavanty āṇḍajaṃ jīvajam udbhijjam iti \\603.1\

1. Now, of these beings here there are just three origins : [there are beings] born from an egg, born from a living thing, born from a sprout.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

6.3.2

seyaṃ devatā aikṣata \
hantāham imās tisro devatā anena jīvenātmanā anupraviśya nāmarūpe vyākaravāṇīti \\603.2\

2. That divinity [i.e. Being] bethought itself: "Come! Let me enter these three divinities [i.e. heat, water, and food] with this living Soul (ātman), and separate out name and form.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

6.3.3

tāsāṃ trivṛtaṃ trivṛtam ekaikāṃ karavāṇīti \
seyaṃ devatemās tisro devatā anenaiva jīvenātmanā anupraviśya nāmarūpe vyākarot \\603.3\

3. Let me make each one of them threefold." That divinity entered into these three divinities with this living Soul, and separated out name and form.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

6.3.4

tāsāṃ trivṛtaṃ trivṛtam ekaikām akarot \
yathā tu khalu (S ) tisro devatās trivṛt trivṛd ekaikā bhavati tan me vijānīhīti \\603.4\

4. It made each of them threefold. Now, verily, my dear, understand from me how each of these three divinities becomes threefold.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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