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 4.13 (thirteenth khaṇḍa) (two texts)
Upaniṣad text:
Now, the Āhavanīya Fire instructed him—‘Breath’ Ākāśa, Heaven and Lightning. This person that is seen in Lightning—that I am,—indeed that am I.—(1)
‘One who knowing this thus meditates upon it, destroys sin, wins regions for himself, reaches the full life-span, lives gloriously and his descendants never perish—We protect him in this world, and also in the other,—whosoever knowing this thus, meditates upon it’.—(2).
Commentary (Śaṅkara Bhāṣya):
Now, the Āhavanīya Fire instructed him—Breath, Ākāśa, Heaven and Lightning—these are my four bodies (forms).—This person that is seen in lightning—that I am etc., etc.,—as before; on ^he ground of common characterstics.—As for Heaven and Ākāśa, these are related to Lightning and the Āhavanīya Fire, as the ‘food’ of these two respectively.—The rest is as before.—(1-2).
End of Section (13) of Discourse IV