Chandogya Upanishad: ( 30/03/2013. )

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, August 31, 2020. 05 : 50.AM. Chapter Two : Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self SECTION 2: THE PRIMACY OF BEING-1. Post-6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. There was one Being alone in the beginning. It is not true that there is a variety of beings. "Sad eva, saumya, idam agra asid ekam evadvitiyam, tadd haika ahuh, asad evedam agra asid ekam evadvitiyam, tasmad asatah saj jayata." "My dear boy, there was only a single Reality existing in the beginning. The so-called variety was not there. It was one; it was without a second. There was nothing outside it; nothing external to it, to compete with it, to equal it or to be different from it. There is no conceivable reality in this world of this nature. Whatever be the stretch of your imagination, you cannot conceive of something outside whi

============================================== Saturday, August 22, 2020. 6 : 30.AM. Chapter Two : Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self SECTION 1: PRELIMINARY-3 Post-4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. "If you take a pair of scissors, for instance, made of iron, you know what it is made of. It is made of iron. Then you would also know what anything else made of iron is. It may be a hammer; it may be a nail; it may be an axe; it does not matter what it is, all these things are the shapes taken by the same iron which is in the pair of scissors. 2. "Now, this earthen pot is a very strange thing, altogether. The earthen pot is a name that you have given to a shape taken by the earth. There is no such thing as a pot, really speaking. You touch a pot and tell me whether you are touching a pot or are touching clay. What are you touching? You cannot say what you are touching. You will

============================================== Wednesday, August 12, 2020. 7:58. PM. Chapter Two : Uddalaka's Teaching Concerning the Oneness of the Self SECTION 1: PRELIMINARY-2 Post-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Yenasrutam srutam bhavati, amatam matam, avijnatam vijnatam iti: katham nu, bhagavah, sa adeso bhavatiti. "Do you know That, by knowing which, everything is known? Do you know That, by which the unheard becomes heard, the unthought becomes thought?" Yenasrutam srutam bhavati, amatam matam, avijnatam vijnatam iti : "Has your Guru, or the preceptor from whom you have studied the four Vedas, taught you these secrets by which things which are not heard of, are heard, things which cannot be thought of, are thought of, that which cannot be understood, is understood? There is something by knowing which everything can be known. Have you heard of this? Have your teachers imparted this knowled