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Chāndogyopaniṣat
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vāg vāva nāmno bhūyasī |
vāg vā ṛgvedaṃ vijñāpayati yajurvedaṃ sāmavedam ātharvaṇaṃ caturtham itihāsapurāṇaṃ pañcamaṃ vedānāṃ vedaṃ pitryaṃ rāśiṃ daivaṃ nidhiṃ vākovākyam ekāyanaṃ devavidyāṃ brahmavidyāṃ bhūtavidyāṃ kṣatravidyāṃ nakṣatravidyāṃ sarpadevajanavidyāṃ divaṃ ca pṛthivīṃ ca vāyuṃ cākāśaṃ cāpaś ca tejaś ca devāṃś ca manuṣyāṃś ca paśūṃś ca vayāṃsi ca tṛṇavanaspatīñ śvāpadāny ākīṭapataṅgapipīlakaṃ dharmaṃ cādharmaṃ |
ca satyaṃ cānṛtaṃ ca sādhu cāsādhu ca hṛdayajñaṃ cāhṛdayajñaṃ ca |
yad vai vāṅ nābhaviṣyan na dharmo nādharmo vyajñāpayiṣyan na satyaṃ nānṛtaṃ na sādhu nāsādhu na hṛdayajño nāhṛdayajñaḥ |
vāg evaitad sarvaṃ vijñāpayati vācam upāssveti || 
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1. SECOND KHANDA
'Speech is better than a name. Speech makes us understand the Rig-veda, Yag-ur-veda, Sama-veda, and as the fourth the Atharvana, as the fifth the Itihasa-purana, the Veda of the Vedas, the Pitrya, the Rasi, the Daiva, the Nidhi, the Vakovakya, the Ekayana, the Deva-vidya, the Brahma-vidya, the Kshatra-vidya, the Nakshatra-vidya, the Sarpa and Devagana-vidya; heaven, earth, air, ether, water, fire, gods, men, cattle, birds, herbs, trees, all beasts down to worms, midges, and ants; what is right and what is wrong; what is true and what is false; what is good and what is bad; what is pleasing and what is not pleasing. For if there were no speech, neither right nor wrong would be known, neither the true nor the false, neither the good nor the bad, neither the pleasant nor the unpleasant. Speech makes us understand all this. Meditate on speech. 
vāgvāva | vāgitīndriyaṃ jihvābhūlādiṣvaṣṭasu sthāneṣu sthitaṃ varṇānāmabhivyañjakam | varṇāśca nāmeti nāmno vāgbhūyasītyucyate | kāryaddhi kāraṇaṃ bhūyo dṛṣṭaṃ loke yathā putrātpitā tadvat | kathaṃ ca vāṅnāmno bhūyasītyāhavāgvā ṛgvedaṃ vijñāpayatyayamṛgveda iti | tathā yajurvedamityādi samānam | hṛdayajñaṃ hṛdayapriyam | tadviparītamahṛdayajñam | yadyadi vāṅnābhaviṣyaddharmādi na vyajñāpayiṣyadvāgabhāve ’dhyayanābhāve tadarthaśravaṇābhāvastacchravaṇābhāve dharmādi na vyajñāpayiṣyanna vijñātamabhaviṣyadityarthaḥ | tasmādvāgevaitacchabdoccāraṇena sarvaṃ vijñāpayatyato bhūyasī vāṅnāmnastasmādvācaṃ brahmetyupāḥsva || 1 || 
sa yo vācaṃ brahmety upāste |
yāvad vāco gataṃ tatrāsya yathākāmacāro bhavati yo vācaṃ brahmety upāste |
asti bhagavo vāco bhūya iti |
vāco vāva bhūyo ’stīti |
tan me bhagavān bravītv iti || 
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2. 'He who meditates on speech as Brahman, is, as it were, lord and master as far as speech reaches he who meditates on speech as Brahman.'
'Sir, is there something better than speech?'
'Yes, there is something better than speech.'
'Sir, tell it me.' 
samānamanyat || 2 || iti cchāndogyopaniṣadi saptamādhyāyasya dvitīyaḥ khaṇḍaḥ 
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