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 7.20 (twentieth khaṇḍa) (one text)
Upaniṣad text:
‘When one serves, then one has Faith; without serving, one has no Faith; it is only when one serves that he has Faith. But service itself should be sought to be understood.’—‘I wish, Revered sir, to understand Service’.—(1)
Commentary (Śaṅkara Bhāṣya):
‘Niṣṭhā’, ‘Service’, stands for attending upon the teacher, and being devoted to him for the purpose of attaining knowledge of Brahman.—(1)
End of Section (20) of Discourse VII.