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उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 7 · Khaṇḍa 1

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 7.1.4

नाम वा ऋग्वेदो यजुर्वेदः सामवेद आथर्वणश् चतुर्थ इतिहासपुराणः पञ्चमो वेदानां वेदः पित्र्यो राशिर् दैवो निधिर् वाकोवाक्यम् एकायनं देवविद्या ब्रह्मविद्या भूतविद्या क्षत्रविद्या नक्षत्रविद्या सर्पदेवजनविद्या ।
नामैवैतत् ।
नामोपास्स्वेति ॥

nāma vā ṛgvedo yajurvedaḥ sāmaveda ātharvaṇaś caturtha itihāsapurāṇaḥ pañcamo vedānāṃ vedaḥ pitryo rāśir daivo nidhir vākovākyam ekāyanaṃ devavidyā brahmavidyā bhūtavidyā kṣatravidyā nakṣatravidyā sarpadevajanavidyā ।
nāmaivaitat ।
nāmopāssveti ॥

'A name is the Rig-veda, Yagur-veda, Sâma-veda, and as the fourth the Âtharvana, as the fifth the Itihâsa-purâna, the Veda of the Vedas, the Pitrya, the Râsi, the Daiva, the Nidhi, the Vâkovâkya, the Ekâyana, the Deva-vidyâ, the Brahma-vidyâ, the Bhûta-vidyâ, the Kshatra-vidyâ, the Nakshatra-vidyâ, the Sarpa and Devagana-vidyâ. All these are a name only. Meditate on the name.

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

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