The Chhandogya Upanishad - 74: Swami Krishnananda.

 

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The Chhandogya Upanishad - 74: 

Swami Krishnananda.

Appendix 2: Samvarga-Vidya

Post-74.

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7.Sa ha ksattanvisya navidam iti pratyeyaya, tam hovaca yatrare brahmanasyanvesana tad-enam arccheti.

He could not find a man of that kind anywhere. Raikva with a cart could not be discovered. So he came back to the king and said, "I cannot find him." The king said: "You search for such great people in cities and marketplaces? You should go to such places where great men live. Such men as Raikva will not live in cities. Go to solitary places, temples, riverbanks and such other sacred spots—isolated, sequestered regions. There alone such great people stay. Where knowers of Brahman would live, you know very well. Go there and search."

8.So'dhastac-chakatasya pamanam kasamanam upopavivesa, tam habhyuvada, tvam nu bagavah sa-yugva raikva iti; aham hyare iti ha pratijajne; sa ha ksatta, avidam iti pratyeyaya.

So this attendant went and after much searching found, in some corner of some village, one poor man sitting under a cart, scratching himself as if he had no other work to do, with no one around him, looking very strange indeed. Such a grotesque-looking person this attendant saw. He suspected this must be Raikva, as he was sitting near a cart. It was difficult to make out the connection between him and the cart. Might be that was his only property. There are some people who move about with carts. They have no other property except a cart. Or it might be by chance that he was sitting near a cart, but there must be some connection between him and the cart. Otherwise, he would not be referred to as 'Raikva with the cart'. So naturally the attendant concluded that it belonged to him, and he was the person whom he was searching for.

Humbly and reverentially this attendant sat near the gentleman and asked him, "Are you Raikva with the cart?" "Yes fellow, I am that," he said in a very callous and careless manner.

So the attendant came back and told the king, "I have found him. He is in a corner of that village." The attendant might have told the name of that particular village.

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