Upaniṣads · Chāndogya 5,24.4
॥
Devanāgarī
तस्मात् उ ह एवम्विद् यदि अपि चण्डालाय उच्छिष्टम् प्रयच्छेत् आत्मनि ह एव अस्य तत् वैश्वानरे हुतम् स्यात् इति तत् एषः श्लोकः
Transliteración (IAST)
tasmāt u ha evamvid yadi api caṇḍālāya ucchiṣṭam prayacchet ātmani ha eva asya tat vaiśvānare hutam syāt iti tat eṣaḥ ślokaḥ
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SánscritoIASTSignificado
तस्मात्tasmāttherefore; for that reason
उusurely; indeed
हhaindeed; surely
एवम्विद्evamvidone who knows this (evam-vid); he who knows thus; one who has realised this
यदिyadiif; but if
अपिapieven; also
चण्डालायcaṇḍālāyato a caṇḍāla (caṇḍāla — the outcaste); to the outcast; to the caṇḍāla
उच्छिष्टम्ucchiṣṭamthe leftover food (ucchiṣṭa — 'the remnants'); the scraps; the remains of the meal
प्रयच्छेत्prayacchethe should hand it (optative of pra + √yam — 'to hold out'); he should offer it; he were to give it
आत्मनिātmaniin the Ātman; in himself
हhaindeed; surely
एवevaindeed; surely
अस्यasyaof this; it
तत्tatthat; this
वैश्वानरेvaiśvānarein Vaiśvānara (locative); in the All-human one; in Vaiśvānara
हुतम्hutamit has been offered in sacrifice (huta); it has been poured; it has been offered
स्यात्syātcould be; it would become
इतिitithus; how
तत्tatthat; this
एषःeṣaḥthis; he
श्लोकःślokaḥa verse; a stanza
Traducción
Therefore one who knows this, even if he gives the remnants of his food to a caṇḍāla, will thereby have offered it in the Vaiśvānara-ātman. Of this there is this verse:
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2beb09e7ad48 · publicado 26 jul 2026, 23:34:59 UTC
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The chapter's boldest verse. Leftovers (ucchiṣṭa) are ritually impure; a caṇḍāla is one whom ritual society barred from the sacrifice. And now: a knower who gives scraps to a caṇḍāla "offers a sacrifice in the Vaiśvānara-ātman" — performs a full act of worship. For one who sees the All-human One there is no unworthy recipient: in a hungry caṇḍāla the same Vaiśvānara eats as in the sacrificial fire; alms to an outcast are an oblation into the very mouth of God.
Vedic strictness is not abolished here but surpassed from within: the purity of the rite was a fence around the fire — a knower sees the fire everywhere, and the fence falls as needless. This is the height at which knowledge becomes indistinguishable from love: paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ — "the wise see with an equal eye a brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and an eater of dogs" (BG 5.18). Service of God in every living being is no later sentimentality but a direct conclusion of the Vaiśvānara-vidyā, drawn by the vidyā itself.