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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 1 · Khaṇḍa 3

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 1.3.4

या वाक् सर्क् ।
तस्माद् अप्राणन्न् अनपानन्न् ऋचम् अभिव्याहरति ।
यर्क् तत् साम ।
तस्माद् अप्राणन्न् अनपानन् साम गायति ।
यत् साम स उद्गीथः ।
तस्माद् अप्रानन्न् अनपानन्न् उद्गायति ॥

yā vāk sark ।
tasmād aprāṇann anapānann ṛcam abhivyāharati ।
yark tat sāma ।
tasmād aprāṇann anapānan sāma gāyati ।
yat sāma sa udgīthaḥ ।
tasmād aprānann anapānann udgāyati ॥

Speech is Rik, and therefore when a man utters a Rik verse he neither breathes up nor down. Rik is Sâman, and therefore when a man utters a Sâman verse he neither breathes up nor down. Sâman is udgîtha, and therefore when a man sings (the udgîtha, Om) he neither breathes up nor down.

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

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