Upaniṣads · Chāndogya 6.4
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Chāndogya 6.4.1
यदग्ने रोहितँरूपं तेजसस्तद्रूपं यच्छुक्लं तदपां यत्कृष्णं तदन्नस्यापागादग्नेरग्नित्वं वाचारम्भणं विकारो नामधेयं त्रीणि रूपाणीत्येव सत्यम् ॥ ६.४.१ ॥
The red form of fire is the form of heat; the white is the form of water; the black is the form of food. What has gone from fire as fire-ness is only a beginning in speech, a modification, a name. There are three forms only; this is the truth.
Chāndogya 6.4.2
यदादित्यस्य रोहितँरूपं तेजसस्तद्रूपं यच्छुक्लं तदपां यत्कृष्णं तदन्नस्यापागादादित्यादादित्यत्वं वाचारम्भणं विकारो नामधेयं त्रीणि रूपाणीत्येव सत्यम् ॥ ६.४.२ ॥
The red form of the sun is the form of heat; the white is the form of water; the black is the form of food. What has gone from the sun as sun-ness is only a beginning in speech, a modification, a name. There are three forms only; this is the truth.
Chāndogya 6.4.3
यच्छन्द्रमसो रोहितँरूपं तेजसस्तद्रूपं यच्छुक्लं तदपां यत्कृष्णं तदन्नस्यापागाच्चन्द्राच्चन्द्रत्वं वाचारम्भणं विकारो नामधेयं त्रीणि रूपाणीत्येव सत्यम् ॥ ६.४.३ ॥
The red form of the moon is the form of heat; the white is the form of water; the black is the form of food. What has gone from the moon as moon-ness is only a beginning in speech, a modification, a name. There are three forms only; this is the truth.
Chāndogya 6.4.4
यद्विद्युतो रोहितँरूपं तेजसस्तद्रूपं यच्छुक्लं तदपां यत्कृष्णं तदन्नस्यापागाद्विद्युतो विद्युत्त्वं वाचारम्भणं विकारो नामधेयं त्रीणि रूपाणीत्येव सत्यम् ॥ ६.४.४ ॥
The red form of lightning is the form of heat; the white is the form of water; the black is the form of food. What has gone from lightning as lightning-ness is only a beginning in speech, a modification, a name. There are three forms only; this is the truth.
Chāndogya 6.4.5
एतद्ध स्म वै तद्विद्वाँस आहुः पूर्वे महाशाला महाश्रोत्रिया न नोऽद्य कश्चनाश्रुतममतमविज्ञातमुदाहरिष्यतीति ह्येभ्यो विदाञ्चक्रुः ॥ ६.४.५ ॥
The ancient great householders and great learned teachers, knowing this, said: "Today no one will declare to us what has not been heard, not thought, not known"; for this reason they came to know these things.
Chāndogya 6.4.6
यदु रोहितमिवाभूदिति तेजसस्तद्रूपमिति तद्विदाञ्चक्रुर्यदु शुक्लमिवाभूदित्यपाँरूपमिति तद्विदाञ्चक्रुर्यदु कृष्णमिवाभूदित्यन्नस्य रूपमिति तद्विदाञ्चक्रुः ॥ ६.४.६ ॥
"What became like red is the form of tejas (fire)" — they knew this; "what became like white is the form of apas (water)" — they knew this; "what became like dark is the form of food (anna)" — they knew this.
Chāndogya 6.4.7
यद्वविज्ञातमिवाभूदित्येतासामेव देवतानाँसमास इति तद्विदाञ्चक्रुर्यथा नु खलु सोम्येमास्तिस्रो देवताः पुरुषं प्राप्य त्रिवृत्त्रिवृदेकैका भवति तन्मे विजानीहीति ॥ ६.४.७ ॥
"What became like unknown is the combination of these very deities" — they knew this. "Gentle one, these three deities, reaching a person, each becomes threefold (trivṛt); understand this for me."