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\nA NOTE ON THE CHHANDOGYA UPANISHAD<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\nfirst
\n<\/span>adhyaya<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

OM is the syllable
\n(the Imperishable One); one should follow after it as the upward song
\n(movement); for with OM one sings (goes) upwards; of which this is the
\nanalytical explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So literally translated in its double
\nmeaning, both its exoteric, physical and symbolic sense and its esoteric
\nsymbolised reality, runs the initial sentence of the Upanishad. These opening
\nlines or passages of the Vedanta are always of great importance; they are always
\nso designed as to suggest or even sum up, if not all that comes afterwards, yet
\nthe essential and pervading idea of the Upanishad. The īs<\/i><\/span>̣<\/span>ā
\nvāsyam<\/span><\/i> o\/the Vajasaneyi, the kenes<\/i><\/span>̣<\/span>itam
\n…manas<\/span><\/i> of the Talavakara, the Sacrificial Horse
\nof the Brihad Aranyaka, the solitary Atman with its hints of the future world
\nvibrations in the Aitareya are of this type. The Chhandogya, we see from its
\nfirst and introductory sentences, is to be a work on the right and perfect way
\nof devoting oneself to the Brahman; the spirit, the methods, the formulae are to
\nbe given to us. Its subject is the Brahman, but the Brahman as symbolised in the
\nOM, the sacred syllable of the Veda; not, therefore, the pure state of the
\nuniversal existence only, but that existence in all its parts, the waking world
\nand the dream self and the sleeping, the manifest, half-manifest and hidden,
\nBhurloka, Bhuvar and Swar, \u2014 the right means to win all of them, enjoy all of
\nthem, transcend all of them, is the subject of the Chhandogya. OM is the symbol
\nand the thing symbolised. It is this symbol, aks<\/i><\/span>̣<\/span>aram,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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