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 2.16 (sixteenth khaṇḍa) (two texts)
Upaniṣad text:
The Spring is the syllable ‘Hiṃ’; the Summer is the Prastāva; the Rainy Season is the Udgītha; the Autump:is the Pratihāra; the Winter is the Nidhana.—This is the Vairāja (Sāma) interwoven in the Seasons.—(1)
Commentary (Śaṅkara Bhāṣya):
The Spring is the syllable ‘Hiṃ’; the Summer is the Prastāva; etc., etc.—as before.—(1)
Upaniṣad text:
One who thus knows the Vairāja as interwoven in the seasons shines with offspring, cattle and Brahmic glory, attains the whole life-span, lives gloriously and becomes great in offspring and cattle, great in fame,—His observance is that he should not decry the Seasons.—(2)
Commentary (Śaṅkara Bhāṣya):
One who knows thus Vairāja interwoven in the seasons shines—like the seasons; that is, just as the seasons shine through the seasonal characteristics, so does the man through offspring and other things.—The rest is as explained before.—The observance is that one should not decry the seasons.—(2)
End of Section (16) of Discourse II