upanishad
उपनिषद् upaniṣadThe closing layer of the Veda, the texts of knowledge (jnana-kanda) on which Vedanta is built. The word is popularly read as 'sitting down near' a teacher; Olivelle argues its oldest sense is a hidden connection, and Shankara read it as the knowledge that destroys ignorance.
Where this term appears
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
And finally the Upanishads , the philosophical inquiries that close each Veda and ask what lies behind the ritual altogether.
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
That scene is from the Katha Upanishad , and it tells you what kind of literature you are entering.
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
One Upanishad puts the intuition in an image, calling the Vedas the very breath of the Imperishable, breathed out like exhalation ( Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.4.10, trans.
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
The Gita is one of the three foundational texts of Vedanta, the prasthanatraya , the "three points of departure": the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras , and the Gita.
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
Something is still there, watching the stripping happen. The Upanishads call that watcher the atman , the self.
- Devas and Asuras Deities
Monier-Williams says so in as many words in his dictionary of 1899: sura is formed from asura as though from a-sura , and it first appears in the Upanishads and the epics.
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
The classic statement of this moral sense is in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad .
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
…undred and thirty-six pages of quotations gathered from the Veda, the Upanishads, the Puranas, the Mahabharata, the Upavedas and various shastras , assembled into an essay, with fifty-odd pages of appendices af…