Satyakama

Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 20 Oct 2011 10:40 and updated at 20 Oct 2011 10:40

CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD NOUN

ChandogyaUpa4 1 Once upon a time Satyakama Jabala addressed his mother Jabala, Mother, I desire to live the life of a celibate student of sacred knowledge in the teacher s house. Of what lineage am I
ChandogyaUpa4 2 She said to him, My child, I do not know of what lineage you are. I, who was engaged in many works and in attending on others, got you in my youth. Having been such I could not know of what lineage you are. However, I am Jabala by name and you are named Satyakama. So you speak of yourself only as Satyakama Jabala.
ChandogyaUpa4 4 Gautama asked him, Dear boy, of what lineage are you He replied, Sir, I do not know of what lineage I am. I asked my mother; she replied, "I, who was engaged in many works and in attending on others, got you in my youth. Having been such, I could not know of what lineage you are. However, I am Jabala by name and you are named Satyakama". So, sir, I am Satyakama Jabala.
ChandogyaUpa4 5 The teacher said to him, No one who is not a Brahmana can speak thus. Dear boy, bring the sacrificial fuel, I shall initiate you as a Brahmacharin, for you have not deviated from truth Having initiated him, he sorted out Four hundred lean and weak Cows and said, Dear boy, follow them. While he was driving them towards the Forest Satyakama said, I shall not return till it is one thousand. He lived away for a long time, till they had increased to one thousand.
ChandogyaUpa4 1 Then the bull addressed him thus, Satyakama Yes, revered sir thus he responded, Dear boy, we have reached a thousand, take us to the house of the teacher.
ChandogyaUpa4 2 The fire addressed him, Satyakama Yes, revered sir he responded.
ChandogyaUpa4 2 The swan flew to him and addressed him, Satyakama Yes, revered sir he responded.
ChandogyaUpa4 2 The Madgu bird flew to him and addressed him, Satyakama Yes, revered sir he responded.
ChandogyaUpa4 1 Satyakama reached the house of the teacher. The teacher addressed him, Satyakama Yes, revered sir he responded.
ChandogyaUpa4 2 Dear boy, you shine like a knower of Brahman; who is it that has instructed you Satyakama assured him, People other than men. But I wish, revered sir, that you would expound it to me.
ChandogyaUpa4 1 Once upon a time Upakosala Kamalayana lived with Satyakama Jabala the life of a Brahmacharin. He tended his fires for twelve years. Satyakama performed for other disciples the ceremony of completing studies and returning home, but did not perform the ceremony for Upakosala.
ChandogyaUpa5 3 Satyakama Jabala imparted this (doctrine of Prana) to Gosruti, the son of Vyaghrapada, and said, If anyone should impart this even to a dry stump, then branches would certainly shoot and leaves would sprout from it

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