Chandogya Upanishad
A great early Upanishad of the Samaveda; source of tat tvam asi in Uddalaka's teaching to Shvetaketu, of the udgitha meditation on OM, and of Satyakama's story.
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Appears in
- The Chandogya Upanishad: that you are Treatise
The Chandogya Upanishad is one of the two prose giants, an edited compilation with older material folded inside it, in all likelihood pre-Buddhist, which Patrick Olivelle places around the seventh to sixth cent…
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
…mpressed seeds of the entire teaching. The most famous comes from the Chandogya Upanishad .
- The Unwritten Library Treatise
For roughly three thousand years, the most important texts in India were never written down. They were heard, memorized syllable by syllable, and carried across a…
- What is Sanatana Dharma? Essentials
The Chandogya Upanishad compresses the whole teaching into three words a father says to his son, tat tvam asi , glossed by Müller as "thou art it." That thou art.
- Om in the Veda Treatise
The essence of essences The Chandogya Upanishad , one of the oldest and longest of the Upanishads, opens with a command, not an argument.
- The vehicle Treatise
In the fifth chapter of the Chandogya Upanishad , and again in the sixth chapter of the Brihadaranyaka , there is a teaching the tradition calls the panchagni vidya , the doctrine of the five fires.
- What remains Treatise
The Chandogya Upanishad , at 6.14.2, gives the image the whole tradition kept.