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 3.3 (third khaṇḍa) (three texts)
Upaniṣad text:
Then, its Westward rays are its western honey-cells; the Sām&verses are the honey-producers;—the Sāmaveda is the flower;—those waters are the nectar.—(1)
Verily these Sāma-verses pressed this Sāmaveda: from it, thus pressed, there proceeded its essence, in the form of fame, resplendence, efficient sense-organs, strength and eatable food.—(2)
It flowed out; it went round the Sun;—this is what appears as the black colour in the Sun.—(3)
Commentary (Śaṅkara Bhāṣya):
Its western rays etc., etc.,—as before—The ‘Honey’ proceeds from the Sāma.—This is the black colour, in the Sun.—(1-3).
End of Section (3) of Discourse III