Chandogya Upanishad (english Translation)
by Swami Lokeswarananda | 165,421 words | ISBN-10: 8185843910 | ISBN-13: 9788185843919
This is the English translation of the Chandogya-upanishad, including a commentary based on Swami Lokeswarananda’s weekly discourses; incorporating extracts from Shankara’s bhasya. The Chandogya Upanishad is a major Hindu philosophical text incorporated in the Sama Veda, and dealing with meditation and Brahman. This edition includes the Sanskrit t...
Verse 1.7.9
कं ते काममागायानीत्येष ह्येव कामागानस्येष्टे य एवं विद्वान्साम गायति साम गायति ॥ १.७.९ ॥
॥ इति सप्तमः खण्डः ॥kaṃ te kāmamāgāyānītyeṣa hyeva kāmāgānasyeṣṭe ya evaṃ vidvānsāma gāyati sāma gāyati || 1.7.9 ||
|| iti saptamaḥ khaṇḍaḥ ||9. [A learned udgātā, who sings the Sāma, will ask the person for whose benefit he is singing:] ‘What shall I ask for on your behalf through my songs?’ He says this [because he knows the Lord in the eye presides over the Sāma and is capable of granting whatever the person wants] and he sings the Sāma, he sings the Sāma.
Word-for-word explanation:
Kam, what; te, for yon; kāmam, desire; āgāyāni iti, shall I sing for; eṣaḥ hi eva, he is the person who; kāmāgānasya iṣṭe, influences the fulfilment of the desires as expressed through songs; yaḥ, the musician [udgātā]; evam, this; vidvān, having known; sāma gāyati sāma gāyati, he sings the Sāma, he sings the Sāma. Iti saptamaḥ khaṇḍaḥ, here ends the seventh section.
Commentary:
The Lord in the eye controls everything—the earth and other worlds, those who live in them, and also the desires of those people. This is the purport of the verse.