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Chāndogya Upaniṣad 8.10.1

ChU 8.10.1

य एष स्वप्ने महीयमानश् चरत्य् एष आत्मेति होवाच । एतद् अमृतम् अभयम् एतद् ब्रह्मेति । स ह शान्तहृदयः प्रवव्राज । स हाप्राप्यैव देवान् एतद् भयं ददर्श । तद् यद्य् अपीदं शरीरम् अन्धं भवत्य् अनन्धः स भवति यदि स्रामम् अस्रामः । नैवैषो ऽस्य दोषेण दुष्यति

ya eṣa svapne mahīyamānaś caraty eṣa ātmeti hovāca | etad amṛtam abhayam etad brahmeti | sa ha śāntahṛdayaḥ pravavrāja | sa hāprāpyaiva devān etad bhayaṃ dadarśa | tad yady apīdaṃ śarīram andhaṃ bhavaty anandhaḥ sa bhavati yadi srāmam asrāmaḥ | naivaiṣo 'sya doṣeṇa duṣyati

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

'He who moves about happy in dreams, he is the Self, this is the immortal, the fearless, this is Brahman.' Then Indra went away satisfied in his heart. But before he had returned to the Devas, he saw this difficulty. Although it is true that that self is not blind, even if the body is blind, nor lame, if the body is lame, though it is true that that self is not rendered faulty by the faults of it (the body),

Translated by F. Max Müller

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