Isavasya OR Isa Upanisad
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad
Chandogya Upanisad
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Taittiriya Upanisad
Aitareya Upanisad
Kausitaki Upanisad
Kena Upanisad
Katha Upanisad
Svetasvatara Upanisad
The Mundaka Upanisad
Prasna Upanisad
Mandukya Upanisad
Maitri Upanisad
 
Chandogya Upanisad

Chapter Eight

VIII.1
1. OM. Within the tiny lotus-house which is in the city of brahman there is a tiny space. That which is in it one must seek for, one must want to know.

2. If folk were to ask him, 'Within the tiny lotus-house which is in the city of brahman there is a tiny space. What is found there that one must seek for, one must want to know?', the sage would say:

3. 'The space within the heart is as big as this space. Both sky and earth are concentrated within it: both fire and air, both sun and moon, both lightning and constellations, what one has here and what one does not have here-everything is concentrated within it.'

4. If they were to ask him, 'If all this, and all beings, and all desires, are concentrated within the city of brahman, when old age seizes it or it perishes, what is left of it?'

5. He would say, 'It does not grow old with the ageing of this, nor is it slain with the slaying of this. It is the true city of brahman. Desires are concentrated within it. The self us free from evil, ageless, deathless, sorrowless, without hunger, without thirst, of true desire, of true resolve.

Just as here people follow at here people follow at command, and live in whatever place, whatever country, whatever share of land they wish for...

6. 'Just as here worlds won through action perish, there worlds won through merit perish. While those here who pass on without having known the self and the true desires do not gain freedom to move in all worlds, those here who pass on having known the self and the true desires do gain freedom to move in all worlds.

VIII.2
1. 'If one desires a world of fathers, at one's will fathers appear and one triumphs, blessed with a world of fathers.

2. 'If one desires a world of mothers, at one's will mothers appear and one triumphs, blessed with a world of mothers.

3. 'If one desires a world of brothers, at one's will brothers appear and one triumphs, blessed with a world of brothers.

4. 'If one desires a world of sisters, at one's will sisters appear and one triumphs, blessed with a world of sisters.

5. 'If one desires a world of friends, at one's will friends appear and one triumphs, blessed with a world of friends.

6. 'If one desires a world of perfumes and garlands, at one's will perfumes and garlands appear and one triumphs, blessed with a world of perfumes and garlands.

7. 'If one desires a world of food and drink, at one's will food and drink appear and one triumphs, blessed with a world of food and drink.

8. 'If one desires a world of singing and music, at one's will singing and music appear and one triumphs, blessed with a world of singing and music.

9. 'If one desires a world of women, at one's will women appear and one triumphs, blessed with a world of women.

10. 'Whatever place one longs for, whatever desire one desires, at one's will it appears and one triumphs, blessed with it.

VIII.3
1. 'These true desires are hidden by falsehood. Falsehood is what hides desires that are true, for when any of one's folk passes on from here one is no longer able to see him.

2. 'By going there one finds everything, both those of one's folk who are alive here and those who have passed away, and whatever else one cannot get by desiring: for here one's true desires are hidden by falsehood. Just as those who do not know the land would not find a golden treasure, though they might walk over it again and again, so all these creatures do not find the world of brahman, though they go creatures do not find the world of brahman, though they go to it every day; for they are kept away by falsehood.

3. 'This self is in the heart. This is the derivation of it: "this in the heart" (hrdy ayam), hence "heart" (hrdayam). The one who knows this goes every day to a heavenly world.

4. 'The blissful one that, leaving this body and entering the light beyond, appears in the own form, is the self,' he said. 'This is the immortal, the fearless: this is brahman. The name of this brahman is "truth" (satya).'

5. ‘There are three syllables, sa-ti-yam. What is sat (being) is immortal. What is ti is mortal. By that which is yam one controls (yam-) them both. Since one controls both by it, it is yam. The one who knows this goes every day to a heavenly world.’



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