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The teaching to Śvetaketu (Chāndogya Upaniṣad, book VI) — Uddalaka Aruni

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The teaching to Śvetaketu (Chāndogya Upaniṣad, book VI)

छान्दोग्योपनिषद् षष्ठोऽध्यायः (Chāndogya Upaniṣad VI)

Manuscrito de la Chāndogya Upaniṣad (1849)
byUddalaka Aruni

Sixteen prose sections. Śvetaketu returns conceited after twelve years of study, and his father teaches him what he did not learn: how, by knowing one thing, everything is known. He sets out the origin of the world from being (sat), "one without a second", which produces heat, water and food; the threefold composition of all things; the experiment of fasting; and nine illustrations — honey, rivers, the tree, the fig seed, salt in water, the man from Gandhāra, the dying man, the thief put to the ordeal of the axe — ending with the refrain "tat tvam asi, Śvetaketu". It is one of the founding texts of Vedānta.

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Authorship note

Uddālaka wrote nothing. The sixth book of the Chāndogya, an anonymous text of the Sāmaveda school, puts the teaching to his son in his mouth; tradition regards it as his. Olivelle dates the Chāndogya to around the seventh to sixth centuries BCE.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation — Uddalaka Aruni

    The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation

    Oxford University Press, 1998

    Translation: Patrick Olivelle

    ISBN 9780195124354

  • Upaniṣads (Oxford World's Classics) — Uddalaka Aruni

    Upaniṣads (Oxford World's Classics)

    Oxford University Press, 1996

    Translation: Patrick Olivelle

    ISBN 9780192835765

    Reedición de 2008: ISBN 9780199540259.

  • Chāndogya Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya — Uddalaka Aruni

    Chāndogya Upaniṣad, with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya

    Advaita Ashrama, 1983

    Translation: Swami Gambhirananda

    ISBN 9788175051003

    ISBN de la reimpresión de 2006.

  • The Upanishads, Part I (Sacred Books of the East 1)

    Clarendon Press, 1879

    Translation: F. Max Müller

    Dominio público. Reimpresión de Dover (1962): ISBN 9780486209920.

Deutsch

  • Sechzig Upanishad's des Veda

    F. A. Brockhaus, 1897

    Translation: Paul Deussen

    Dominio público.

Français

  • Chāndogya-Upaniṣad

    Les Belles Lettres, 1930

    Translation: Émile Senart

Español

  • El Chandogya Upanishad

    Editorial Hastinapura, 2001

    Translation: Swami Nikhilananda (versión española)

    ISBN 9789509102699

    Traducción española de la versión inglesa de Nikhilananda; traductor al español no indicado en Open Library.

  • La sabiduría del bosque: antología de las principales Upaniṣad

    Trotta, 2003

    Translation: Félix G. Ilárraz y Óscar Pujol

    ISBN 9788481645941

Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्

  • छान्दोग्योपनिषद्/अध्यायः ६

    Wikisource en sánscrito

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Sources

  • Olivelle, Patrick (ed. y trad.). The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Chāndogya 5.3–5.24 y 6; Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3.7, 6.2, 6.3.7 y 6.5; Kauṣītaki 1.1.

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