Source: Vaishvanara, The Universal Self - Chandogya Upanishad
Ignorance is the cause of suffering because it breeds erroneous action towards motives which are wrongly directed. This is the cause for the transmigratory cycle of the soul, which can be put an end to only by proper meditation on the inward structure of the Universe in its [...]
Source: The Course of the Soul After Death - Chandogya Upanishad
In this connection, the Upanishad commences with a story. There was a student named Svetaketu who was the son of sage Uddalaka. This student was well-read and finely educated. He was so confident about his knowledge that he used to parade his learning and calibre [...]
Source: The Panchagni-Vidya from Chadogya Upanishad
The sections of the Chandogya Upanishad, which we are going to study, are a gradational ascent of knowledge for the purpose of meditations which lift us above the phenomena of ordinary experience, such as birth and death and bondage of every kind, and point to the methods of transcending all [...]
Source: Significance of Chandogya Upanishad
Among the ten major Upanishads, the Chandogya and the Brihadaranyaka stand above others in their grand stature and majesty, these two texts being viewed by scholars as representing the cosmic and the acosmic aspect of Reality. In the Brihadaranyaka there is a preponderating emphasis on the ultra-spiritual nature of every plane [...]
One day a young boy came to the ashrama of Sage Gautama and said: “Holy Sire, I want to get the sacred knowledge by serving you. Please accept me as your student.”
The sage asked: “Child, What is your gotra?” (Gotra is one’s family name).
The boy replied: “Sire, I asked it of my mother. She said: [...]
Sandilya, the great Rishi, had this revelation of the Supreme Being. Vidya is a meditation, an art of thinking on the Supreme goal. This meditation begins with the proclamation of the all-comprehensiveness of Brahman: “Sarvam khalvidam brahma - All this is verily Brahman.” This vidya is contained in Section 14 of Chapter Three of the [...]
Chandogya Upanishad
Invocation
Om. May the different limbs of my body, my tongue, prana, eyes, ears and my strength and also all the other sense�organs be nourished! All, indeed, is Brahman, as is declared in the Upanishads. May I never deny Brahman! May Brahman never deny me! May there never be denial on [...]
Of the available commentaries the oldest is the one written by Adi Shankara. Adi shankara has indicated that his commentary work is a brief book for those who want to know summary of this Upanishad. Commentator Ananda Giri has mentioned in his commentary that one Dramidacharya has written an elaborate and detailed commentary well before [...]
The Chandogya Upanishad is one of the oldest (perhaps “the oldest”), “primary” Upanishads. It is a Mukhya Upanishad, associated with the Samaveda. It figures as number 9 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads. It is part of the Chandogya Brahmana which has ten chapters. The first two chapters of the Brahmana deal with sacrifices [...]
In the Chandogya Upanishad occurs the Mahavakya, ‘Tat Tvam Asi’ or ‘That thou art’. Sage Uddalaka mentions this nine times, while instructing his disciple Svetaketu in the nature of Reality.
That which is one alone without a second, without name and form, and which existed before creation, as well as after creation, as pure Existence alone, [...]