Chandogya Upanishad 8.6.5
Chāndogyopaniṣad 8.6.5
- Language
- Sanskrit
8.6.5
atha yatraitad asmāc charīrād utkrāmati \
athaitair eva raśmibhir ūrdhvam ākramate \
sa om iti vā hod vā mīyate \
sa yāvat kṣipyen manas tāvad ādityaṃ gacchati \
etad vai khalu lokadvāraṃ viduṣāṃ prapadanaṃ nirodho 'viduṣām \\806.5\
But when he thus departs from this body, then he proceeds upwards through these very rays, (if a knower) he surely goes up meditating on Om or (does not go up if he is not a knower). As long as it takes for the mind to travel, in that (short) time, he goes to the sun. That indeed is the door to the world (of Brahman), an entrance for the knowers and a shutting out for the ignorant.
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
- Bhāṣya of Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha — Śiva Śaṃkara Kāvyatīrtha, Sanskrit
- Khaṇḍārtha — Rāghavendra Tīrtha 1615, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyabhāṣya (Madhva) — Madhva, Sanskrit
- Chāndogyaprakāśikā (Raṅgarāmānuja) — Raṅgarāmānuja Muni, Sanskrit
- Commentary of Upaniṣadbrahmayogin — Upaniṣadbrahmayogin, Sanskrit
Discussed in (2)
- The Philosophy of the Upanishads — Deussen & Geden 1899, English
- The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary — Deussen & Johnston 1883, English