Chandogya Upanishad

“ Chandogyu Upanishad ” ( Dev. छांदोग्योपनिषद्, Chāndogya Upaniṣad ^IAST ) is a Vedic text in Sanskrit, one of the eleven Upanishads of the canon of Mukhya .

Along with the “ Jaiminia-Upanishad Brahman ” and “ Brihadaranyaka Upanisad ” is one of the oldest Upanishads, dated by scholars during the compilation of Brahman (the beginning of the first millennium BC ). “Chandogya Upanishad” is associated with “ Samaveda ” and in the canon the muktika of the 108 major Upanishads is in ninth place. It is part of the Chandogya Brahmins (chapters 2 through 10). Along with the Brihadaranyaka Upanisad, the Chandogya Upanisad is the oldest source of the basic tenets of Vedanta philosophy. The special significance of this Upanishad in the Vedantic philosophy can be judged by the references to it in the Vedanta-sutras . Of the surviving comments on the Chandogya Upanishad, Shankara's comment is the earliest. Ananda Giri argues in his commentary that long before Shankara, a voluminous commentary on this Upanishad was written by Dramidacharya . This comment, however, has not reached our days, and very little is known about Dramidacharya himself. Dramidacharya’s commentary, in turn, was based on a brief review of the Brahmanandi Tankacarya’s “Chandogya Upanishad”. These two scholars are often mentioned in their commentaries by Vedanta-sangraha and Sribhashya by the Vaishnava acarya Ramanuja .