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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 5 · Khaṇḍa 1

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 5.1.7

ते ह प्राणाः प्रजापतिं पितरम् एत्योचुः भगवन् को नः श्रेष्ठ इति ।
तान् होवाच ।
यस्मिन् व उत्क्रान्ते शरीरं पापिष्ठतरम् इव दृश्येत स वः श्रेष्ठ इति ॥

te ha prāṇāḥ prajāpatiṃ pitaram etyocuḥ bhagavan ko naḥ śreṣṭha iti ।
tān hovāca ।
yasmin va utkrānte śarīraṃ pāpiṣṭhataram iva dṛśyeta sa vaḥ śreṣṭha iti ॥

They went to their father Pragâpati and said: 'Sir, who is the best of us?' He replied: 'He by whose departure the body seems worse than worst, he is the best of you.'

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

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