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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 4 · Khaṇḍa 7

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 4.7.3

ब्रह्मणः सोम्य ते पादं ब्रवाणीति ।
ब्रवीतु मे भगवान् इति ।
तस्मै होवाच ।
अग्निः कला ।
सूर्यः कला ।
चन्द्रः कला ।
विद्युत् कला ।
एष वै सोम्य चतुष्कलः पादो ब्रह्मणो ज्योतिष्मान् नाम ॥

brahmaṇaḥ somya te pādaṃ bravāṇīti ।
bravītu me bhagavān iti ।
tasmai hovāca ।
agniḥ kalā ।
sūryaḥ kalā ।
candraḥ kalā ।
vidyut kalā ।
eṣa vai somya catuṣkalaḥ pādo brahmaṇo jyotiṣmān nāma ॥

The Hamsa said: 'Friend, I will declare unto you one foot of Brahman.' 'Declare it, Sir,' he replied. He said to him: 'Fire is one quarter, the sun is one quarter, the moon is one quarter, lightning is one quarter. This is a foot of Brahman, consisting of four quarters, and called Gyotishmat (full of light).

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

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