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Dr. Thibaut now takes up the Chhandogya-
Upanishad, but only to dismiss it after making
a brief remark concerning the Sandilya- Vidya.
That remark is as follows:- "There is no rea-
son whatever for supposing that Sandilya, or
whoever may have been the author of that Vid-
ya, looked upon it as anything else but a state-
ment of the highest truth accessible to man. "
If Sandilya thought that what he knew and
taught was the highest truth accessible to man,
it does not follow that we are precluded from
the search after something higher. The Chhan-
dogya-Upanishad goes on to teach truths which
are contained in texts like "तत्त्वमसि ", सदेव सोम्येदम-
and so on. We have to use our
faculties of reasoning, and see which is the high-
est truth. Moreover, in the Sandilya-Vidya
itself, the text uses the word ""; and
though we call this upasana itself (devout me-
ditation) by the name of vidya (knowledge) and
though there are Upanishadic texts which use
the words upasana and vidya as synomymous,
there are other Upanishadic texts-to which we
have already also referred-which distinguish
emphatically between the Brahman which is the
Dr. Thibaut now takes up the Chhandogya-
Upanishad, but only to dismiss it after making
a brief remark concerning the Sandilya- Vidya.
That remark is as follows:- "There is no rea-
son whatever for supposing that Sandilya, or
whoever may have been the author of that Vid-
ya, looked upon it as anything else but a state-
ment of the highest truth accessible to man. "
If Sandilya thought that what he knew and
taught was the highest truth accessible to man,
it does not follow that we are precluded from
the search after something higher. The Chhan-
dogya-Upanishad goes on to teach truths which
are contained in texts like "तत्त्वमसि ", सदेव सोम्येदम-
and so on. We have to use our
faculties of reasoning, and see which is the high-
est truth. Moreover, in the Sandilya-Vidya
itself, the text uses the word ""; and
though we call this upasana itself (devout me-
ditation) by the name of vidya (knowledge) and
though there are Upanishadic texts which use
the words upasana and vidya as synomymous,
there are other Upanishadic texts-to which we
have already also referred-which distinguish
emphatically between the Brahman which is the