Chandogya Upanishad (Shankara Bhashya)
by Ganganatha Jha | 1942 | 149,749 words | ISBN-10: 8170842840 | ISBN-13: 9788170842842
This is the English translation of the Chandogya Upanishad, an ancient philosophical text originally written in Sanksrit and dating to at least the 8th century BCE. Having eight chapters (adhyayas) and many sub-sections (khandas), this text is counted among the largest of it's kind. The Chandogya Upanishad, being connected to the Samaveda, represen...
Section 5.17 (seventeenth khaṇḍa) (two texts)
Upaniṣad text:
He said to Uddālaka-Āruṇi—O, Gautama! What is that Self on which you meditate? ‘The Earth, O Revered King’, he said. ‘This that you meditate upon as Self is that Vaiśvānara-Self which is firmness; hence, you are firm—as regards offspring and cattle.’—(1)
‘You eat food and see what is dear. One who thus meditates upon this Vaiśvānara-Self eats food and sees what is dear, and there is Brahmic glory in his famliy. But this is only the feet of the That Self; and your feet would have faded if you had not come to me—(2)
Commentary (Śaṅkara Bhāṣya):
Then he said to Uddālaka etc., etc.—as before. ‘The Earthy O Revered King’—he said. ‘This firmness is the feet of Vaiśvānara’, and your feet would be faded,— benumbed, paralysed,—if you had not come to me’—(1-2)
End of Section (17) of Discourse V