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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 1.1.8

ChU 1.1.8

तद् वा एतद् अनुज्ञाक्षरम् । यद् धि किंचानुजानात्य् ओम् इत्य् एव तद् आह । एषो एव समृद्धिर् यद् अनुज्ञा । समर्धयिता ह वै कामानां भवति य एतद् एवं विद्वान् अक्षरम् उद्गीथम् उपास्ते

tad vā etad anujñākṣaram | yad dhi kiṃcānujānāty om ity eva tad āha | eṣo eva samṛddhir yad anujñā | samardhayitā ha vai kāmānāṃ bhavati ya etad evaṃ vidvān akṣaram udgītham upāste

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

That syllable is a syllable of permission, for whenever we permit anything, we say Om, yes. Now permission is gratification. He who knowing this meditates on the syllable (Om), the udgîtha, becomes indeed a gratifier of desires.

Translated by F. Max Müller

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Cite as: Chāndogya Upaniṣad 1.1.8, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/ChU/1.1.8), after GRETIL, Chandogya-Upanisad (Chandogyopanisad) Mula text extracted from the commented version.

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GRETIL 1_veda/4_upa/chup___u.htm — Chandogya-Upanisad (Chandogyopanisad) Mula text extracted from the commented version. Input by members of the Sansknet project (formerly: www.sansknet.org) [GRETIL-Version vom 17.03.2017] Revisions: 2017-03-17: 7,16.1 added by James Fitzgerald This GRETIL vers

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