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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 8 · Khaṇḍa 3

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 8.3.2

अथ ये चास्येह जीवा ये च प्रेता यच् चान्यद् इच्छन् न लभते सर्वं तद् अत्र गत्वा विन्दते ।
अत्र ह्य् अस्यैते सत्याः कामा अनृतापिधानाः ।
तद् यथापि हिरण्यनिधिं निहितम् अक्षेत्रज्ञा उपर्य् उपरि सञ्चरन्तो न विन्देयुः ।
एवम् एवेमाः सर्वाः प्रजा अहर् अहर् गच्छन्त्य एतं ब्रह्मलोकं न विन्दन्त्य् अनृतेन हि प्रत्यूढाः ॥

atha ye cāsyeha jīvā ye ca pretā yac cānyad icchan na labhate sarvaṃ tad atra gatvā vindate ।
atra hy asyaite satyāḥ kāmā anṛtāpidhānāḥ ।
tad yathāpi hiraṇyanidhiṃ nihitam akṣetrajñā upary upari sañcaranto na vindeyuḥ ।
evam evemāḥ sarvāḥ prajā ahar ahar gacchantya etaṃ brahmalokaṃ na vindanty anṛtena hi pratyūḍhāḥ ॥

'Those who belong to us, whether living or departed, and whatever else there is which we wish for and do not obtain, all that we find there (if we descend into our heart, where Brahman dwells, in the ether of the heart), There are all our true desires, but hidden by what is false. As people who do not know the country, walk again and again over a gold treasure that has been hidden somewhere in the earth and do not discover it, thus do all these creatures day after day go into the Brahma-world (they are merged in Brahman, while asleep), and yet do not discover it, because they are carried away by untruth (they do not come to themselves, i. e. they do not discover the true Self in Brahman, dwelling in the heart).

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

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