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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 7 · Khaṇḍa 5

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 7.5.1

चित्तं वाव संकल्पाद् भूयः ।
यदा वै चेतयते ऽथ संकल्पयते ।
अथ मनस्यति ।
अथ वाचम् ईरयति ।
ताम् उ नाम्नीयूअति ।
नाम्नि मन्त्रा एकं भवन्ति ।
मन्त्रेषु कर्माणि ॥

cittaṃ vāva saṃkalpād bhūyaḥ ।
yadā vai cetayate ’tha saṃkalpayate ।
atha manasyati ।
atha vācam īrayati ।
tām u nāmnīyūati ।
nāmni mantrā ekaṃ bhavanti ।
mantreṣu karmāṇi ॥

'Consideration (kitta) is better than will. For when a man considers, then he wills, then he thinks in his mind, then he sends forth speech, and he sends it forth in a name. In a name the sacred hymns are contained, in the sacred hymns all sacrifices.

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

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