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Chandogya Upanishad

Chandogya Upanishad 6.6

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'That which is the subtile portion of curds, when churned, rises upwards, and becomes butter.

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'In the same manner, my child, the subtile portion of earth (food), when eaten, rises upwards, and becomes mind.

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'That which is the subtile portion of water, when drunk, rises upwards, and becomes breath.

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'That which is the subtile portion of fire, when consumed, rises upwards, and becomes speech.

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English · F. Max Müller

'For mind, my child, comes of earth, breath of water, speech of fire.' 'Please, Sir, inform me still more,' said the son. 'Be it so, my child,' the father replied.

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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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