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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 5 · Khaṇḍa 8

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 5.8.1

योषा वाव गौतमाग्निः ।
तस्या उपस्थ एव समित् ।
यद् उपमन्त्रयते स धूमः ।
योनिर् अर्चिः ।
यद् अन्तः करोति ते ऽङ्गाराः ।
अभिनन्दा विस्फुलिङ्गाः ॥

yoṣā vāva gautamāgniḥ ।
tasyā upastha eva samit ।
yad upamantrayate sa dhūmaḥ ।
yonir arciḥ ।
yad antaḥ karoti te ’ṅgārāḥ ।
abhinandā visphuliṅgāḥ ॥

Woman, verily, O Gautama, is a sacrificial fire. In this case the sexual organ is the fuel; when one invites, the smoke; the vulva, the flame; when one inserts, the coals; the sexual pleasure, the sparks.

Robert Ernest Hume · The Thirteen Principal Upanishads (Oxford University Press, 1921), p. 232

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