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Chandogya Upanishad 8.10.3

Chāndogyopaniṣad 8.10.3

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Sanskrit

8.10.3

sa samitpāṇiḥ punar eyāya \
taṃ ha prajāpatir uvāca maghavan yac chāntahṛdayaḥ prāvrājīḥ kim icchan punar āgama iti \
sa ha uvāca tad yadyappīdaṃ bhagavaḥ śarīram andhaṃ bhavaty anandhaḥ sa bhavati yadi srāmam asrāmaḥ \
naivaiṣo 'sya doṣeṇa duṣyati \\810.3\

He came back again, fuel in hand. Prajāpati asked him, 'Desiring what, O Indra, have you come back, since you went away satisfied in your heart?' He replied, 'Revered sir, even though this self is not blind when this body is blind, nor one-eyed when the body is one-eyed, nor suffers defects from the defects of the body, nor is slain when the body is slain, nor has running nose and eyes when the body has running nose and eyes, yet it is as if they kill it, as if they chase it, it becomes conscious of pain, as it were and even weeps, as it were. I see no good in this.' 'So is it indeed, O Indra', said Prajāpati, 'however, I shall explain this further to you. Live here for another thirty-two years.' He lived there for another thirty-two years. Then Prajāpati said to him:

Swami Swahananda 1956, The Chāndogya Upaniṣad

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