In that vast Brahma-wheel, in which all things live and rest, the bird flutters about, so long as he thinks that the self (in him) is different from the mover (the god, the lord). When he has been ...

Here is an introduction to The Upanishads by Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr for the discerning reader. It was Alfred North Whitehead who said: ‘The safest general characterisation of the European ...

Now, indeed, O king, this is the Brahma-knowledge, even the knowledge contained in all the Upanishads, as declared to us by the honorable Maitri. I will narrate it to you. Now, the Valakhilyas are ...

The Sanskrit ligature for "Om" Source: Neel Burton The national motto of India, Satyameva Jayate (Truth Alone Triumphs), is from the Mundaka Upanishad. “Upanishad” means something like “hidden ...

The Mandukya Upanishad maps out the entire range of life experience in the sound of Aum, in elaborating on the mystery of Brahmn, in twelve short verses. It does so by juxtaposing the four states of ...

In the Chandogya Upanishad (c. 7th century BCE), Indra, king of the Vedic gods, and his nemesis, Virochana, king of the asuras (anti-gods), go to the temple of the creator god, Prajapati, to learn the ...

Six young men meet Sage Pippalada to unravel the mystery of prana, breath. The six questions they ask form the inquiry in the Prashna Upanishad. The tenor is set by the first question: From where are ...

The Isavasya Upanishad which has 18 mantras is, strictly speaking, not an Upanishad. It comes under the Samhita portion of the Sukla Yajurveda, called Vajasaneya Samhita, as the concluding 40th ...