Chandogya Upanishad 8.5.3
Chāndogyopaniṣad 8.5.3
- Language
- Sanskrit
8.5.3
atha yad anāśakāyanam ity ācakṣate brahmacaryam eva tat \
eṣa hy ātmā na naśyati yaṃ brahmacaryeṇānuvindate \
atha yad araṇyāyanam ity ācakṣate brahmacaryam eva tat \
tat araś ca ha vai ṇyaś cārṇavau brahmaloke tṛtīyasyām ito divi \
tad airaṃmadīyaṃ saraḥ \
tad aśvatthaḥ somasavanaḥ \
tad aparājitā pūr brahmaṇaḥ prabhuvimitaṃ hiraṇmayam \\805.3\
3. Now, what people call ‘a course of fasting’ (_an-āśakāyana_ ) is really the chaste life of a student of sacred knowledge, for the Soul (Ātman) which one finds through the chaste life of a student of sacred knowledge perishes not (_na naśyati_).
Now, what people call ‘betaking oneself to hermit life in the forest’ (_araṇyāyana_) is really the chaste life of a student of sacred knowledge. Verily, the two seas in the Brahma-world, in the third heaven from here, are _Ara_ and _Ṇya_. There is the lake Airammadīya (‘Affording Refreshment and Ecstasy’);
there, the fig-tree Somasavana (‘the Soma-yielding’); there, Brahma’s citadel, Aparājitā (‘the Unconquered’), the golden hall of the Lord (_prabhu_).
Translations (2)
- The Thirteen Principal Upanishads — Robert Ernest Hume 1921, English
- The Upanishads, Part I (SBE 1) — Friedrich Max Müller 1879, English
Commentaries (7)
- Chāndogyopaniṣadbhāṣya — Śaṅkara, Sanskrit
- Padapāṭha (sandhi-resolved text, TITUS) — Sanskrit
- Chāndogyabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Bhāṣya of Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha — Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin 1700, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
Linked texts (7)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — P. V. Kane, English
- Vedic Index of Names and Subjects — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English
- Altindische Grammatik — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Willibald Kirfel, German
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Paul Deussen & A. S. Geden, English
- The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary — Paul Deussen & Charles Johnston, English