upanishad

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Taquilla Jones said ... upanishad is a section of the rig veda, a collection of writings from the buddhist religion

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  1. In Sanskrit lit., a name given to a series of treatises of theosophic and philosophic contents. They are of different dates. They exhibit the earliest attempts of the Hindu mind to penetrate into the mysteries of creation and existence. An upanishad is a passage of more philosophic or theosophic character, an excursus into a higher and freer region of thought, away from the details of the ceremonial and their exposition. Whitney, Amer. Jour. Philol., VII. 1.

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  • If they justify in a manner that women need to be conservative, which hindu upanishad / veda / purana mentioned it? —  rediff.com
  • Taquilla Jones said ... upanishad is a section of the rig veda, a collection of writings from the buddhist religion —  Anime World Order Podcast
  • The passage on p. 232 shows that /S/a@nkara considered the explanation of the mantra given in the Paingi-upanishad worth quoting, and is in fact fully intelligible only in case of its having been quoted before by /S/a@nkara himself.--That the 'apara' quotes the B/ri/hadбra/n/yaka not according to the Ka/n/va text--to quote from which is /S/a@nkara's habit--but from the Madhyandina text, is due just to the circumstance of his being an 'apara,' i.e. not /S/a@nkara Footnote 9: Ita/s/ /k/aitad evam. —  The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
  • (The Self) consisting of bliss (is the highest Self) on account of the repetition (of the word 'bliss,' as denoting the highest Self The Taittirоya-upanishad (II, 1-5), after having enumerated the Self consisting of food, the Self consisting of the vital airs, the Self consisting of mind, and the Self consisting of understanding, says, 'Different from this which consists of understanding is the other inner Self which consists of bliss.' —  The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
  • Up. III, 11, 3, 'He who thus knows this Brahma-upanishad where the word Brahma-upanishad is explained to mean Veda-upanishad. —  The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
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