Reading
Questions:
The Chandogya Upanishad
- What does the father mean about being a Brahmin by virtue of birth
only?
- What does the father mean by “the instruction by which that which
is not heard becomes heard?” and why does Svetaketu need this
kind of instruction after being away at school for so long? What does
that say about the value of formal education?
- What is the main problem with the way beings see and understand themselves? Look
carefully at the passages about bees and nectar and rivers and seas.
- What does the salt represent? What does the water represent?
- What does the father mean when he says “That is Reality, That
is the Self, and That is you, Svetaketu!"?