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Chandogya Upanisad
Chapter Seven
3. 'The one who worships will as brahman wins worlds that are fitting (klpta): being constant, he wins constant worlds; being established, established worlds; being sorrowless, sorrowless worlds. He wins freedom to move as far as will can go-the one who worships will as brahman.'
'Blessed one, is there anything greater than will?'
'There is something greater than will.'
'Tell me about it, blessed one,'
VII.5
1. 'Intelligence (citta) is greater than will. When one reflects (cetayati), one wills; then one thinks; then one utters speech-one utters it as names. In name the mantras become one, and in the mantras actions become one.
2. 'These have intelligence as their sole end, intelligence as their self, and are established on intelligence. So even if someone knows much, but is without intelligence, folk say of him, "He is nobody. If he had learned, or knew he would not be without intelligence like this". But if someone knows little, but has intelligence, folk wish to hear him. Intelligence is the sole end of these; intelligence is their self; intelligence is their basis. Worship intelligence.
3. 'The one who worships intelligence as brahman wins worlds that are longed for (citta): being constant, he wins constant worlds; being established, established worlds; being sorrowless, sorrowless worlds. He wins freedom to move as far intelligence can go-the one who worships intelligence as brahman.'
'Blessed one, is there anything greater than intelligence?'
'There is something greater than intelligence.'
'Tell me about it, blessed one.'
VII.6
1. 'Meditation is greater than intelligence. Earth seems to meditate. Sky seems to meditate. The waters seems to meditate. The mountains seem to meditate. Gods and human beings seem to meditate. So those amongst human beings who achieve greatness here seem to share in the reward of mediation. Those who are small are quarrelsome, spiteful, slanderous: those who are powerful seem to share in the reward of meditation. Worship meditation.
2. 'The one who worships meditation as brahman wins freedom to move as far as meditation can go-the one who worships meditation as brahman.'
'Blessed one, is there anything greater than meditation?"
'There is something anything greater than meditation?'
'Tell me about it, blessed one.'
VII.7
1. 'Understanding is greater than meditation. By understanding one knows the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda, the Atharvan which is the fourth, and history and legend the fifth; the Veda of Vedas, the ancestral rites, arithmetic, portents, treasure-finding, disputation, the single way, the knowledge of the gods, the knowledge of priesthood, the knowledge of ghosts, the knowledge of royalty, the knowledge of the constellations, the knowledge of the divine people who are serpents, sky, earth, air, space, water, heat, gods, human beings, domestic animals, birds, grass and trees, and wild animals, all the way down to worms, flying things and ants; right and wrong, truth and falsehood, good and bad, attractive and unattractive, food, flavour, this world, and that world. One knows them through understanding. Worship understanding.
2. 'The one who worships understanding as brahman attains worlds full of understanding, full of knowledge. He wins freedom to move as fat as understanding can go-the one who worships understanding as brahman.'
'Blessed one, is there anything greater than understanding?'
'There is something greater than understanding.'
'Tell me about it, blessed one.'
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