Satyakama Jabala : Chhandogya Upanishad’s 4th Khanda relates how Satyakāma, sent by his guru Rishi Haridrumata Gautama to live the forest tending to 400 cows of the ashrama until they became 1000, returned enlightened by four divine teachers.
... the 1981 edition. The second commentary, Page 443 also incomplete, is entitled in the manuscript "Vedic Interpretations / Satyakama Jabala". In most editions of the Chhandogya Upanishad, the story of Satyakama Jabala occupies sections 4-9 of the fourth chapter, not sections 3-8 as in the edition Sri Aurobindo used. The commentary was first published in the 1981 edition ...
... Good Teacher and The Good Pupil Brahmacharins in Search of Knowledge (A few selections from the Upanishad) I Truthfulness Satyakama Jabala said to his Mother Jabala: "Venerable mother: I wish to join school as a brahmacharin (pupil wishing to learn the true knowledge). Please tell me from what family I hail." She said... Teachers and Pupils in The Upanishads In the Upanishadic literature we come to know of a large number of good teachers and good pupils. In the selection presented in this book there are Satyakama, Jabala, Nachiketas, Shvetaketu and Narada. We may also refer to the traditional story of Uddalaka Aruni, the son ofAruna Gautama and father of Shvetaketu. Most of the important works of the period refer ...
... illuminations and spiritual experience. The Chhandogya Upanishad is thus the summary history of one of the greatest & most interesting ages of human thought. Page 262 Satyakama Jabala The story of Satyakama Jabala occupies five sections, the third to the eighth, of the fourth chapter in the Chhandogya Upanishad. The Chhandogya seems to be the most ancient of the extant Upanishads. It speaks... "Now Satyakama Jabala spoke unto his mother Jabala and said 'Mother, I shall go and lead the life of the Brahmacharin; tell me what is my gotra .' But she answered him, 'This I know not, my son, of what gotra thou art; resorting to many as a serving woman in my youth I got thee, therefore I know not of what gotra thou art. But Jabala is my name and Satyakama is thine, Satyakama Jabala therefore... 265 mother and she answered me, Resorting to many in my youth as a serving woman I got thee, therefore I know not of what gotra thou art, but Jabala is my name and Satyakama is thine; Satyakama Jabala therefore am I.' And he said to him, 'None who is not a Brahmin can be strong enough to say this; gather the firewood, my son, I will take thee under me, for thou didst not depart from the truth ...
... 371, 691 Salvador de Madariaga 534 Samir Kant Gupta 12 Sanat Banerji 241 Sanyal, Dr see Prabhat Sanyal Satprem 719, 753, 772-4, 777, 794, 808-9, 816 Satwalekar, Sripad Damodar 683 Satyakama Jabala 730 Satyendra Thakore 276-7, 400, 490 Saurin Bose 153 Schuman, Maurice 571 Seyril Schochen 763 Shakespeare 312, 324 Shankar Chettiar (Chetty) 47, 131 Shanti Doshi 271-3 Shantimayi (Janet ...
... hours, and the art of preparing toys for children. In the Upanishadic literature we come to know of a large number of good teachers and good pupils. In the selection presented here, there are Satyakama Jabala, Nachiketas, Shvetaketu and Narada. We may also refer to the traditional story of Uddalaka Aruni, the son of Aruna Gautama and father of Shvetaketu. Most of the important works of the period refer... in all his brightness. Rig Veda IV.2.19 Page 74 Brahmacharins in Search of Knowledge (A few selections from the Upanishad) I* Truthfulness 1. Satyakama Jabala said to his Mother Jabala: 'Venerable mother: I wish to join school as a brahmacharin (pupil wishing to learn the true knowledge). Please tell me from what family I hail.' 2. She said to ...
... continence, but also a constant burning aspiration for the knowledge of the Brahman. What was expected from the pupil was enthusiasm, utsaha, zeal to learn, to discover and to master. Pupils, like Satyakama, Jabala, used to search Page 144 out their own teachers and seek approval for admission to their Gurukulas from them. But teachers, too, used to pray for pupils. The Rishi in the Taittiriya ...
... experience. And even when this turn was still evident, chiefly among the Kshatriyas and Brahmins, we find too among those who attained to the knowledge men like Janashruti, the wealthy shudra or Satyakama Jabala, son of a servant girl who knew not who was his father. The Upanishads mark both continuity and change. The Vedantic seers renewed the Vedic truth by extricating it from its cryptic symbols ...
... The great names that we find in the Upanishads include: Uddalaka Aruni, Gargi Vachaknavi, Janaka, Narada, Pippalada, Prevahana Jairali, Mahidasa Aitareya, Maitreyi, Yajnavalkya, Raikwa, Saunaka, Satyakama Jabala, Sukeshin Bharadvaja. Page 30 learning, knowledge of all the best thought, openness to poetry, art and beauty, an educated capacity and skill in works; in the inner being pity, love ...
... free was this Free Progress system? The discipline of freedom could be far more exacting than the rule of mechanical regulation. In a large sense, the 'system' went back to the hoary example of Satyakama Jabala who was sent by his Guru after initiation to the forest, with the strange directive that when the four hundred lean cows became one thousand, the pupil might return. But Satyakama was as keen ...
... the greatest good." The unschooled shepherd of old watched the stars at night and learned many things; he could commune with Nature, and he could sense the mystic beauty and peace around him. Satyakama Jabala tended his herd in the forest over a period of months and years till the ultimate Truths became an open book to him. At the same time, it would not be wise today to cry down uncritically ...
... context from that in the Veda. It shows the profound reverence in which the Vedas were held by the seers of the Upanishads. _________________ 2. ibid. Page 186 For example, when Satyakama Jabala delays in imparting spiritual instruction to the young disciple his wife chides him and says: " Let not the Fires instruct the seeker before you do. " Fire as a God was worshipped ...
... by birth. The boys and young men who were brought up in the old ashramas were trained in many things belonging to life, including the use of arms. Knowledge, the Veda, could be had by everyone. Satyakama Jabala, son of the prostitute Jabala, was accepted by the Rishi Haridrumata Gautama as a disciple worthy of receiving the supreme Knowledge. What mattered was the Truth. Truth of spirit. By the ...
... in a new race, ready to face and shape the future, and leave the past far, far behind. The "free progress system" now in force at the Centre of Education expects the pupil to follow Satyakama Jabala's example and rely on his soul rather than on habits, conventions or preconceived ideas. The whole aim is to make the educational process spontaneous, flexible and evolutionary and not artificial ...
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