The Chhandogya Upanishad - 79: Swami Krishnananda

 

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Friday 21, February 2025. 11:00.
The Chhandogya Upanishad - 79: 
Swami Krishnananda.
Appendix 2: Samvarga-Vidya
Section-3 Continued
Slogam-7.
Post-79.

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Section-3 Continued

Slogam-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, river banks 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."

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Slogam-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.

Section - 2.

Slogam-1.

"Tad u ha janasrutih parutrayanah sat-satavni gavam niskam 

asvatari-rathacm tad-adaya praticakrame, tam habhyuvada."

Slogam-2.

"Raikvemani sat satani gavam, ayam nisko'yam asvatarirathah, 

anu ma etam bhagavo devatam sadhi, yam devatam upassa iti."

The king was very happy. He collected a lot of wealth and reverentially went to this great man sitting under a cart, scratching the eruptions on his skin. He took with him six hundred cows, a gold necklace, and a chariot driven by mules. He addressed Raikva: "O Great One, here are six hundred cows, here is a gold necklace, here is a chariot driven with mules. Please accept these things and initiate me into the meditation on the deity whose worship you are performing, and on whom you are meditating. I want to be initiated into the great vidya which you possess, knowledge of that deity whom you have known." The great man was not pleased. He did not accept those gifts, nor was he prepared to give any initiation.

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Next

Section-2.

Slogam-3.

Continued

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