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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 8.8

Chāndogyopaniṣad 8.8

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Sanskrit

8.8.1

udaśarāva ātmānam avekṣya yad ātmano na vijānīthas tan me prabrūtam iti \
tau hodaśarāve avekṣāṃ cakrāte \
tau ha prajāpatir uvāca kiṃ paśyatha iti \
tau hocatuḥ sarvam evedam āvāṃ bhagava ātmānaṃ paśyāva ā lomabhyaḥ ā nakhebhyaḥ pratirūpam iti \\808.1\

1. ‘Look at yourself in a pan of water. Anything that you do not understand of the Self, tell me.’ Then the two looked in a pan of water. Then Prajāpati said to the two: ‘What do you see?’ Then the two said: ‘We see everything here, Sir, a Self corresponding exactly, even to the hair and finger-nails!’

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

8.8.2

tau ha prajāpatir uvāca sādhvalaṃkṛtau suvasanau pariṣkṛtau bhūtvodaśarāve avekṣethām iti \
tau ha sādhvalaṃkṛtau suvasanau pariṣkṛtau bhūtvodaśarāve avekṣāṃ cakrāte \
tau ha prajāpatir uvāca kiṃ paśyatha iti \\808.2\

2. Then Prajāpati said to the two: ‘Make yourselves well-ornamented, well-dressed, adorned, and look in a pan of water.’ Then the two made themselves well-ornamented, well-dressed, adorned, and looked in a pan of water. Then Prajāpati said to the two: ‘What do you see?’

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

8.8.3

tau hocatur yathaivedam āvāṃ bhagavaḥ sādhvalaṃkṛtau suvasanau pariṣkṛtau sva evam evemau bhagavaḥ sādhvallaṃkṛtau suvasanau pariṣkṛtāv iti \
eṣa ātmeti hovāca \
etad amṛtam abhayam etad brahmeti \
tau ha śāntahṛdayau pravavrajatuḥ \\808.3\

3. Then the two said: ‘Just as we ourselves are here, Sir, well-ornamented, well-dressed, adorned—so there, Sir, well-ornamented, well-dressed, adorned.’ ‘That is the Self,’ said he. ‘That is the immortal, the fearless. That is Brahma.’ Then with tranquil heart (śānta-hṛdaya) the two went forth.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

8.8.4

tau hānvīkṣya prajāpatir uvāca anupalabhyātmānam ananuvidya vrajato yatara etadupaniṣado bhaviṣyanti devā vā asurā vā te parābhaviṣyantīti \
sa ha śāntahṛdaya eva virocano 'surāñ jagāma \
tebhyo haitām upaniṣadaṃ provāca ātmaiveha mahayya ātmā paricaryaḥ \
ātmānam eveha mahayann ātmānaṃ paricarann ubhau lokāv āpnotīmaṃ cāmuṃ ceti \\808.4\

4. Then Prajāpati glanced after them, and said: ‘They go without having comprehended, without having found the Self (Ātman). Whosoever shall have such a mystic doctrine (upaniṣad), be they gods or be they devils, they shall perish.’ Then with tranquil heart Virocana came to the devils. To them he then declared this mystic doctrine (upaniṣad): ‘One-self (ātman) is to be made happy here on earth. Oneself is to be waited upon. He who makes his own self (ātman) happy here on earth, who waits upon himself—he obtains both worlds, both this world and the yonder.’

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

8.8.5

tasmād apyaddyehādadānam aśraddadhānam ayajamānam āhur āsuro bateti \
asurāṇāṃ hy eṣopaniṣat \
pretasya śarīraṃ bhikṣayā vasanenālaṃkāreṇeti saṃskurvanti \
etena hyammuṃ lokaṃ jeṣyanto manyante \\808.5\

5. Therefore even now here on earth they say of one who is not a giver, who is not a believer (a-śraddadhāna), who is not a sacrificer, ‘Oh! devilish (asura)!’ for such is the doctrine (upaniṣad) of the devils. They adorn the body (śarīra) of one deceased with what they have begged, with dress, with ornament, as they call it, for they think that thereby they will win yonder world.

Robert Ernest Hume 1921, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads

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