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 7.19 (nineteenth khaṇḍa) (one text)
Upaniṣad text:
‘When one has Faith, then he reflects; without Faith, one does not reflect; one reflects only when he has Faith.—But one should seek to understand Faith itself.’—‘I wish, Revered sir, to understand Faith.’—(1)
Commentary (Śaṅkara Bhāṣya):
Faith is the idea that thing in question really exists.—(1)
End of Section (19) of Discourse VII.