Sacred Learning
Satyakāma Jābāla — dialogue map
Chāndogya 4.4: the boy speaks his mother’s truth and is received for teaching.
Upanishadic dialogue
Chāndogya 4.4: the boy speaks his mother’s truth and is received for teaching.
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The boy asks his gotra
Chāndogya 4.4 opens with Satyakāma asking his mother his lineage.Chāndogya Upaniṣad 4.4
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Jābāla’s truth
The mother speaks what she knows of his birth.Chāndogya Upaniṣad 4.4
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Received as student
Gautama receives him because he spoke truth.Chāndogya Upaniṣad 4.4
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Worthy student
The dialogue keeps truth-speaking as the door of teaching.Chāndogya Upaniṣad 4.4
Sources and traditions
- Chāndogya Upaniṣad, Sanskrit Documents — Chāndogya Upaniṣad 4.4 (Sanskrit Documents numbering) · Public-domain Devanagari recension as posted 2026 · Sanskrit: public-domain Devanagari as encoded at Sanskrit Documents (sanskritdocuments.org) by named volunteer proofreaders. Foundation diagrams: original SVG, CC BY-SA 4.0. · 2026-09-20
- Upanishads overview, Vedic Heritage Portal — Portal essay on Upanishads as jñāna-kāṇḍa · Vedic Heritage Portal public page, accessed 2026-09-20 · Institutional public catalogue; Meenananda cites locator without copying protected images. · 2026-09-20
Claims on this page
- Satyakāma speaks the truth of his mother Jābāla and is received as a student. — Chāndogya Upaniṣad 4.4