Chāndogya Upaniṣad 7.24

7.24.1

yatra nānyat paśyati nānyac chṛṇoti nānyad vijānāti sa bhūmā \
atha yatrānyat paśyaty anyac chṛṇoty anyad vijānāti tad alpam \
yo vai bhūmā tad amṛtam \
atha yad alpaṃ tan martyam (S ) \
sa bhagavaḥ kasmin pratiṣṭhita iti \
sve mahimni yadi vā na mahimnīti \\724.1\

1. ‘Where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else—that is a Plenum. But where one sees something else—that is the small. Verily, the Plenum is the same as the immortal; but the small is the same as the mortal.’

‘That Plenum, Sir—on what is it established?’

‘On its own greatness—unless, indeed, not on greatness at all.

7.24.2

go 'śvam iha mahimety ācakṣate hastihiraṇyaṃ dāsabhāryaṃ kṣetrāṇy āyatanānīti \
nāham evaṃ (S ) \
bravīmīti hovāca \
anyo hy anyasmin pratiṣṭhita iti \\724.2\

Here on earth people call cows and horses, elephants and gold, slaves and wives, fields and abodes “greatness.” I do not speak thus; I do not speak thus,’ said he; ‘for [in that case] one thing is established upon another.