Hindu traditions · Upanishads
Chāndogya Upanishad
The subtle essence · 6.8.7
Selected speech from 6.8.7 only. The surrounding dialogue and the remainder of chapter 6 are not reproduced.
Selected speech from the verse. Checked against the printed scan, page 101 (Internet Archive leaf 215). Historical spelling “subtile” is retained; the personal name is rendered in plain type as Svetaketu.
Now that which is that subtile essence (the root of all), in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it.
Edition & source
Selected speech from 6.8.7 only. The surrounding dialogue and the remainder of chapter 6 are not reproduced.
- Edition
- The Upanishads, part I, Sacred Books of the East, volume I
- Translation
- F. Max Müller (1823–1900)
- Published
- 1879
- Reading language
- English
- Original language
- Sanskrit
- Text & usage
- Historical translation; Internet Archive identifies the source volume as not in copyright.
This small extract is from Müller’s original 1879 translation, not a modern translation or commentary. No rights in the hosting website or later editorial material are claimed.
A Sanskrit teaching text that explores the self, reality and knowledge through conversations and images. Here a father addresses his son Śvetaketu; later Hindu traditions interpret the teaching in different ways.