Upaniṣads · Chāndogya 8,3.1
॥
Devanāgarī
ते इमे सत्याः कामाः अनृतापिधानाः तेषाम् सत्यानाम् सताम् अनृतम् अपिधानम् यः यः हि अस्य इतः प्रैति न तम् इह दर्शनाय लभते
Transliteración (IAST)
te ime satyāḥ kāmāḥ anṛtāpidhānāḥ teṣām satyānām satām anṛtam apidhānam yaḥ yaḥ hi asya itaḥ praiti na tam iha darśanāya labhate
Palabra por palabra
SánscritoIASTSignificado
तेteto you; for you
इमेimethese; the present
सत्याःsatyāḥtrue (satya, plural); genuine; true
कामाःkāmāḥdesires; aspirations
अनृतापिधानाःanṛtāpidhānāḥunder a covering of untruth (anṛta-apidhāna — 'with a lid of falsehood'); overlaid with untruth; shut in by falsehood
तेषाम्teṣāmof them; for them
सत्यानाम्satyānāmof the true; of the real
सताम्satāmof what really is (sat, genitive plural); of the actual; of the existent
अनृतम्anṛtamfalsehood; falsehood
अपिधानम्apidhānamthe covering (api-dhāna — 'a lid'); the covering; the screen
यःyaḥwho; the one who
यःyaḥwho; the one who
हिhiindeed; truly
अस्यasyaof this; it
इतःitaḥfrom here; from this world
प्रैतिpraitihe departs (pra + √i — 'he goes forth', he dies); goes forth; dies
नnanot; no
तम्tamit; that one
इहihahere; in this world
दर्शनायdarśanāyato see (darśana, dative — 'for the seeing'); for the beholding; in order to see
लभतेlabhategains; obtains
Traducción
These true desires are under a covering of falsehood. They are true, but falsehood is their lid: for whoever of ours departs from here is not to be seen here again.
Versión
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The chapter's great diagnosis: te ime satyāḥ kāmā anṛtāpidhānāḥ — "these true desires are under a covering of falsehood". The heart's desires are true at root: longing for the departed, a thirst for beauty, for music, for love — all this is genuine gold. But upon it lies a lid (apidhāna) — anṛta, untruth: a false knowledge of where and how what is sought is to be sought.
And the example given is the bitterest: the dead we loved. They have not vanished — we have seen it: desire the world of the fathers and the fathers arise (8.2.1); but "he is not to be seen here again" — the falsehood that covers our longing bids us seek the living among graves, in the outward, where they are not. Grief for the dead is a true desire for a meeting, read off a false map of the world.
So the chief perplexity of the spiritual life is explained: why, carrying a treasury of everything in the heart, a man lives poor and grieving. Not because there is no treasure — because what is sought is sought in the wrong place. The next verse will cast this into the immortal image of a hoard underfoot.