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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 7 · Khaṇḍa 14

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 7.14.1

आशा वाव स्मराद् भूयसी ।
आशेद्धो वै स्मरो मन्त्रान् अधीते कर्माणि कुरुते पुत्रांश् च पशूंश् चेच्छत इमं च लोकं अमुं चेच्छते ।
आशाम् उपास्स्वेति ॥

āśā vāva smarād bhūyasī ।
āśeddho vai smaro mantrān adhīte karmāṇi kurute putrāṃś ca paśūṃś cecchata imaṃ ca lokaṃ amuṃ cecchate ।
āśām upāssveti ॥

'Hope (âsâ) is better than memory. Fired by hope does memory read the sacred hymns, perform sacrifices, desire sons and cattle, desire this world and the other. Meditate on hope.

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

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