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Chandogya Upanishad

Chandogya Upanishad 4.5

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English · F. Max Müller

The bull of the herd (meant for Vâyu) said to him: 'Satyakâma!' He replied: 'Sir!' The bull said: 'We have become a thousand, lead us to the house of the teacher;

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English · F. Max Müller

'And I will declare to you one foot of Brahman.' 'Declare it, Sir,' he replied. He said to him; 'The eastern region is one quarter, the western region is one quarter, the southern region is one quarter, the northern region is one quarter. This is a foot of Brahman, consisting of the four quarters, and called Prakâsavat (endowed with splendour).'

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'He who knows this and meditates on the foot of Brahman, consisting of four quarters, by the name of Prakâsavat, becomes endowed with splendour in this world. He conquers the resplendent worlds, whoever knows this and meditates on the foot of Brahman, consisting of the four quarters, by the name of Prakâsavat.

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Sanskrit text: Oliver Hellwig, The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS), 2010–2024. CC BY 4.0. · Source ↗

Sanskrit text from The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (DCS) by Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2024, https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Changes: sentence parts joined per verse; in the Kaṭha Upaniṣad, 1.2.15–16 rejoined to follow the standard verse numbering.

Translated by F. Max Müller, The Upanishads, Sacred Books of the East vols. 1 (1879) and 15 (1884), Oxford: Clarendon Press. Public domain. Transcribed by English Wikisource volunteers. · Source ↗

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