Chandogya Upanishad, one of the oldest Upanishad has been written during the Vedic Brahmana period. Chandogya Upanishad is associated with Sama Veda. Chandogya Upanishad is the part of Chandogya Brahaman that contains ten chapters. The 5th Khanda of Chapter Eight of Chandogya Upanishad states about continence. It explains that which is called Yajna is Brahmacharya or continence. One who is aware of the Brahman obtains that world of Brahman. Others obtain it by through sacrifice, by means of continence. That which is called lshta is continence. For having desired (ishtva) the Knowledge of the Self; by means of continence one realizes the Self. That which is called Satrayana sacrifice, that is really continence. It is through continence that one obtains from the True (Sat) the safety (trana) of the self. That which is known as Mauna is continence. Through continence is that Soul known and meditated upon. That, which is known as the vow of fasting i.e. anasakayana, is really continence. That soul is not destroyed which is known through continence. That which is called Aranyayana is continence. Ara means an "ocean" and nya means an ocean; and these two oceans abide in the region of Brahma. One who knows this and realises the region of Brahman through continence, gets all his desires accomplished in all regions. For him there is freedom in all the worlds.
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