चतुर्थोऽध्यायः · Chapter Overview
From The Chāndogya Upaniṣad, taught by Acharya T Krishnatrey. This lesson is free to read.
<pre data-block="statement">What this adhyāya covers | A chapter of memorable stories. SATYAKĀMA JĀBĀLA, a boy who honestly admits he does not know his father's lineage, is accepted as a student precisely because he told the truth. It teaches the SAṂVARGA-VIDYĀ — how, in sleep and at dissolution, all powers are "absorbed" into breath (and cosmically into the wind) — and tells how the sacred fires themselves, pleased with the humble Upakosala, teach him that Brahman is breath, joy and space.</pre>