Chāndogya Upaniṣad 8.7

8.7.1

ya ātmā apahatapāpmā vijaro vimṛtyur viśoko vijighatso 'pipāsaḥ satyakāmaḥ satyasaṃkalpaḥ so 'nveṣṭavyaḥ sa vijijñāsitavyaḥ \
sa sarvāṃś ca lokān āpnoti sarvāṃś ca kāmān yas tam ātmānam anuvidya vijānātīti ha prajāpatir uvāca \\807.1\

1. 'The Self (Ātman), which is free from evil, ageless, deathless, sorrowless, hungerless, thirstless, whose desire is the Real, whose conception is the Real—He should be searched out, Him one should desire to understand. He obtains all worlds and all desires who has found out and who understands that Self.'—Thus spake Prajāpati.

8.7.2

tad dhobhaye devāsurā anububudhire \
te hocur hanta tam ātmaānam anvecchāmo yam ātmānam anviṣya sarvāṃś ca lokān āpnoti sarvāṃś ca kāmān iti \
indro haiva devānām abhipravavrāja virocano 'surāṇām \
tau hāsaṃvidānāv eva samitpāṇī prajāpatisakāśam ājagmatuḥ \\807.2\

2. Then both the gods and the devils (deva-asura) heard it. Then they said: 'Come! Let us search out that Self, the Self by searching out whom one obtains all worlds and all desires!'

Then Indra from among the gods went forth unto him, and Virocana from among the devils. Then, without communicating with each other, the two came into the presence of Prajāpati, fuel in hand.

8.7.3

tau ha dvātriṃśataṃ varṣāṇi brahmacaryam ūṣatuḥ \
tau ha prajāpatir uvāca \
kim icchantāv avāstam iti \
tau hocatur ya ātmā apahatapāpmā vijaro vimṛtyur viśoko vijighatso 'pipāsaḥ satyakāmaḥ satyasaṃkalpaḥ so 'nveṣṭavyaḥ sa vijijñāsitavyaḥ \
sa sarvāṃś ca lokān āpnoti sarvāṃś ca kāmān yas tam ātmānam anuvidya vijānātīti bhagavato vaco vedayante \
tam icchantāv avāstam iti \\807.3\

3. Then for thirty-two years the two lived the chaste life of a student of sacred knowledge (brahmacarya).

Then Prajāpati said to the two: 'Desiring what have you been living?'

Then the two said: '"The Self (Ātman), which is free from evil, ageless, deathless, sorrowless, hungerless, thirstless, whose desire is the Real, whose conception is the Real—He should be searched out, Him one should desire to understand. He obtains all worlds and all desires who has found out and who understands that Self."'—Such do people declare to be your words, Sir. We have been living desiring Him.'

8.7.4

tau ha prajāpatir uvāca ya eṣo 'kṣiṇi puruṣo dṛṣyata eṣa ātmeti hovāca \
etad amṛtam abhayam etad brahmeti \
atha yo ayaṃ bhagavo 'psu parikhyāyate yaś cāyam ādarśe katama eṣa iti \
eṣa u evaiṣu sarveṣvannteṣu parikhyāyata iti hovāca \\807.4\

4. Then Prajāpati said to the two: 'That Person who is seen in the eye—He is the Self (Ātman) of whom I spoke. That is the immortal, the fearless. That is Brahma.'

'But this one, Sir, who is observed in water and in a mirror—which one is he?'

'The same one, indeed, is observed in all these,' said he.