Chandogya Upanishad 8.10.4
Chāndogyopaniṣad 8.10.4
- Language
- Sanskrit
8.10.4
na vadhenāsya hanyate \
nāsya srāmyeṇa srāmaḥ \
ghnanti tvivainam \
vicchādayantīva \
apriyavetteva bhavati \
api roditīva \
nāham atra bhogyaṃ paśyāmīti \
evam evaiṣa maghavann iti ha uvāca \
etaṃ tveva te bhūyo 'nuvyākhyāsyāmi \
vasāparāṇi dvātriṃśataṃ varṣāṇīti \
sa hāparāṇi dvātriṃśataṃ varṣāṇyuvāsa \
tasmai hovāca \\810.4\
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:
Translations (5)
- The Chāndogya Upaniṣad — Swami Swahananda 1956, English
- The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
- The Upanishads — Swami Nikhilananda 1949, English
- Chāndogya Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Swami Gambhirananda 1983, English
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
Commentaries (7)
- Chāndogyopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text) — Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya of Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha — Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha, Sanskrit