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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 1 · Khaṇḍa 1

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 1.1.8

तद् वा एतद् अनुज्ञाक्षरम् ।
यद् धि किंचानुजानात्य् ओम् इत्य् एव तद् आह ।
एषो एव समृद्धिर् यद् अनुज्ञा ।
समर्धयिता ह वै कामानां भवति य एतद् एवं विद्वान् अक्षरम् उद्गीथम् उपास्ते ॥

tad vā etad anujñākṣaram ।
yad dhi kiṃcānujānāty om ity eva tad āha ।
eṣo eva samṛddhir yad anujñā ।
samardhayitā ha vai kāmānāṃ bhavati ya etad evaṃ vidvān akṣaram udgītham upāste ॥

That syllable is a syllable of permission, for whenever we permit anything, we say Om, yes. Now permission is gratification. He who knowing this meditates on the syllable (Om), the udgîtha, becomes indeed a gratifier of desires.

F. Max Müller · The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East 1 (1879)

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