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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 8 · Khaṇḍa 5

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 8.5.3

अथ यद् अनाशकायनम् इत्य् आचक्षते ब्रह्मचर्यम् एव तत् ।
एष ह्य् आत्मा न नश्यति यं ब्रह्मचर्येणानुविन्दते ।
अथ यद् अरण्यायनम् इत्य् आचक्षते ब्रह्मचर्यम् एव तत् ।
तत् अरश् च ह वै ण्यश् चार्णवौ ब्रह्मलोके तृतीयस्याम् इतो दिवि ।
तद् ऐरंमदीयं सरः ।
तद् अश्वत्थः सोमसवनः ।
तद् अपराजिता पूर् ब्रह्मणः प्रभुविमितं हिरण्मयम् ॥

atha yad anāśakāyanam ity ācakṣate brahmacaryam eva tat ।
eṣa hy ātmā na naśyati yaṃ brahmacaryeṇānuvindate ।
atha yad araṇyāyanam ity ācakṣate brahmacaryam eva tat ।
tat araś ca ha vai ṇyaś cārṇavau brahmaloke tṛtīyasyām ito divi ।
tad airaṃmadīyaṃ saraḥ ।
tad aśvatthaḥ somasavanaḥ ।
tad aparājitā pūr brahmaṇaḥ prabhuvimitaṃ hiraṇmayam ॥

What people call fasting (anâsakâyana), that is really abstinence, for that Self does not perish (na nasyati), which we find out by abstinence. What people call a hermit's life (aranyâyana), that is really abstinence. Ara and Nya are two lakes in the world of Brahman, in the third heaven from hence; and there is the lake Airanimadîya, and the Asvattha tree, showering down Soma, and the city of Brahman (Hiranyagarbha) Aparâgitâ, and the golden Prabhuvimita (the hall built by Prabhu, Brahman).

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

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