'This world, in the beginning, was phenomenally non-existent': Āruṇi’s discourse on Cosmogony in Chāndogya Upaniṣad VI.1–VI.7

This paper critically reads and analyzes the first discourse of Āruṇi and Śvetaketu in the first half of the sixth chapter of the Chāndogya Upaniṣad (VI.1–VI.7). It argues that, except for a few interpolated lines in VI.2 and VI.3, the entire discourse constitutes one integrated whole with a specifi...