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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 6 · Khaṇḍa 4

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 6.4.2

यद् आदित्यस्य रोहितं रूपं तेजसस् तद् रूपम् ।
यच् छुक्लं तद् अपाम् ।
यत् कृष्णं तद् अन्नस्य ।
अपागाद् आदित्याद् आदित्यत्वम् ।
वाचारम्भणं विकारो नामधेयं त्रीणि रूपाणीत्य् एव सत्यम् ॥

yad ādityasya rohitaṃ rūpaṃ tejasas tad rūpam ।
yac chuklaṃ tad apām ।
yat kṛṣṇaṃ tad annasya ।
apāgād ādityād ādityatvam ।
vācārambhaṇaṃ vikāro nāmadheyaṃ trīṇi rūpāṇīty eva satyam ॥

'The red colour of the sun (âditya) is the colour of fire, the white of water, the black of earth. Thus vanishes what we call the sun, as a mere variety, being a name, arising from speech. What is true are the three colours.

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

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