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The Chandogya Upanishad - 3-27. : Swami Krishnananda.

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========================================================================= Friday, April 14,  2023. 06:49. CHAPTER 4: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NATURE OF THE SELF Section : 1.The Universal Self within the Heart and in the World-1 ========================================================================= Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self SECTION 1: THE UNIVERSAL SELF WITHIN THE HEART AND IN THE WORLD 1. Harih om. atha yad-idam asmin brahma-pure daharam pundarikam vesma, daharo'smin antarakasah, tasmin yad-antah, tad-anvestavyam, tad-vava vijijnasitavyam. We now commence the eighth and the last chapter of the Chhandogya Upanishad. In our own self, in the deepest recess of our own heart, there is a great secret. This is the subject of this chapter. We carry within our own self a great mystery. No one can be a greater mystery than our own Self. Everything else is capable of definition and understanding, but one's own Self is the greatest enigma in the whole world. Everything