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OPENING THE UPANISHADS
उपनिषदःin the light of Sri Aurobindo

The thirteen / Chāndogya Upanishad / Adhyāya 8 · Khaṇḍa 9

CHĀNDOGYA UPANISHAD · 8.9.1

अथ हेन्द्रो ऽप्राप्यैव देवान् एतद् भयं ददर्श ।
यथैव खल्व् अयम् अस्मिञ् छरीरे साध्वलंकृते साध्वलंकृतो भवति सुवसने सुवसनः परिष्कृते परिष्कृत एवम् एवायम् अस्मिन्न् अन्धे ऽन्धो भवति स्रामे स्रामः परिवृक्णे परिवृक्णः ।
अस्यैव शरीरस्य नाशम् अन्व् एष नश्यति ।
नाहम् अत्र भोग्यं पश्यामीति ॥

atha hendro ’prāpyaiva devān etad bhayaṃ dadarśa ।
yathaiva khalv ayam asmiñ charīre sādhvalaṃkṛte sādhvalaṃkṛto bhavati suvasane suvasanaḥ pariṣkṛte pariṣkṛta evam evāyam asminn andhe ’ndho bhavati srāme srāmaḥ parivṛkṇe parivṛkṇaḥ ।
asyaiva śarīrasya nāśam anv eṣa naśyati ।
nāham atra bhogyaṃ paśyāmīti ॥

But Indra, before he had returned to the Devas, saw this difficulty. As this self (the shadow in the water) is well adorned, when the body is well adorned, well dressed, when the body is well dressed, well cleaned, if the body is well cleaned, that self will also be blind, if the body is blind, lame, if the body is lame, crippled, if the body is crippled, and will perish in fact as soon as the body perishes. Therefore I see no good in this (doctrine).

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

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