gatiśabdābhyāṃ tathā hi dṛṣṭaṃ liṅgaṃ ca ..1.3.15..

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gatiśabdābhyāṃ tathā hi dṛṣṭaṃ liṅgaṃ ca ..1.3.15..

.. Gatih, going. … Shabdabhyam, a word, i.e., on account of the going and of the word. The going into «ether»; and the word ‘Etad Brahmaloka’ … this (ether) is Brahma world. .. Tatha, thus. Drishtam…, seen. .. Lingam, mark, sign from which something may be inferred. .. Cha, and.

15. Because this ether is that to which the Jivas go in deep sleep, and because there is a word connecting this small ether with the highest Brahman. This is seen in other texts also, and there is a Lingani or inferential mark in this passage also, from which we infer that the small ether is Brahman. — 79.

COMMENTARY

In the Chhandogya Upanishad, Chap. 8., Sec. 8, we find the following further description given of this small ether:

As people who do not know the country walk again and again over a hidden gold treasure, but do not know.

Thus do all these creatures day after day go into that Brahma-world, but do not know, being carried away by untruth. (Chh. Up., VIII, 3. 2).

The above passage referring to Dahara or the small ether says that it is the Gati or goal of all creatures, and it is described as that Brahmaloka. (therefore, these two descriptions, namely, Gati or goal and the word Etam — that, referring to Dahara as Brahma-loka, show that the small ether can be nothing else than the Lord Vishnu. Moreover there are other Upanishad texts which also show that in deep sleep, the soul becomes united with Brahman:

All these creatures having become united with, the True do not know that they are united with the True. Having come back from the True, they know not that they have come back from the True. (Chh. Up., VI, 9, 2, 10, 2).

The above text shows that in other parts of this Upanishad the same idea, that Brahman is the goal, is seen. And the word Brahmo-loka applied to the small ether is a sign that it is the Lord Vishnu that is meant here. This Brahmaloka cannot mean «the world of Brahma», called also the Satyaloka, because it is not possible for Jivas to go daily in their sleep to Satyaloka, while it is possible for them to enter into Brahman in their sleep, every day.

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