Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Brihadaranyakopanishad Brihadaranyaka Brihad Aranyaka Great Aranyaka : ascribed to Rishi Yajñavalkya, belongs to the Kāṇvī branch of Vājasaneyi Brāhmaṇa of Shukla Yajur Veda.
... Bharadwaja, 31, 34 Bharat Muni, 102 Brahma Sutra, 88 Brahmacharin, 33,37,63 Brahmacharya, 33,52 Brahman, 24, 28,30,37 Brahmanas, 66,87,89 Brahmin, 42, 52 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 30,70 Brihaspati, 13,14 Brihat, 12, 47 British, 50, 84 Buddha, 83 Buddhi, 28 Buddhism, 8,46,59,84 Bull, 73 Caste, 54 Casteism, 62 Charanavyuha ...
... Chapter III METAPHYSICS OF HUNGER: THE MYSTERY OF 'ANNA' AND 'ANNADA'* This whole world, verily, is just food and the eater of food. (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, I .4.6) This is the Power...that has the multitude of its desires so that it may sustain all things; it takes the taste of all foods. (Rig Veda, V.7.6) O Thou in... in whom is the food, thou art that divine food, thou art the vast, the divine home. (Rig Veda, IX.83) In the beginning all was covered by Hunger that is Death. (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, I .2.1) All Matter...is food, and this is the formula of the material world that "the eater eating is himself eaten". (Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 192) He... But what is the essential purpose behind this mah ā bubhuk ṣā , this colossal hunger and cosmic enjoyment of the divine Inhabitant who as 'Agni the Devourer' (agni ḥ ann ā da ḥ , Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, I.4.6.) tastes and consumes the world as soma 8 ? All 1 "Viśvo'si vaiśvānaro'si viśvaṁ tvayā dhāryate jāyamānam. Viśantu tvām-āhutayaśca sarvāḥ prajāḥ." (Maitri Upanishad ...
... out our earth under his illuminating sun. Rig-Veda, V.85.1 *** What shall I do with that by which the nectar of immortality is not obtained? Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, IV.5.4 Page 31 Violent are they, yet comrades of a firm gleaming Strength. Rig-Veda, V.52.2 *** O master of energy they have ...
... facsimile below.—Ed. × One of Sri Aurobindo's disciples wrote this quotation from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ( I.3.28 ) in his notebook. Below it Sri Aurobindo wrote तथास्तु (tathāstu): "So be it!"—Ed. ...
... 1902). This marginal translation was first reproduced in the 1981 edition of The Upanishads . The Great Aranyaka. Circa 1912 . Shortly after writing the above translation, Sri Aurobindo began a commentary on the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad that he entitled "The Great Aranyaka / A Commentary on the Brihad Aranyak Upanishad". This was not completed even to the extent of what had been translated ...
... subordinate sense function; the expressions employed almost reconstitute the image of the Horse by which the Life-Energy is symbolised in the language of the Veda and in the opening of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. It is difficult to believe that one & the same word means the Life-Breath in the question proposed, verse 1, and the sense of smell in an integral part of the answer given, verse 8. But if ...
... poetic genius and created the beautiful forms in heaven." But the earth has another delight to give – delight itself. "Of all elements the earth is essentially full of delight," so says the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. A smile radiates the beauty of form. A deeper emotion makes tears more beautiful. Happiness is limned ¹"Attachez Dieu au gibet, vous avez la croix." – Victor Hugo Page 145 ...
... consistency, could penetrate far into that mystic symbolism and that deep & elusive flexibility which is characteristic of all the Upanishads, but rises to an almost unattainable height in the Brihad Aranyaka. He has done much, has shown often a readiness and quickness astonishing in so different a type of intellectuality but more is possible and needed. The time is fast coming when the human intellect... from Manuscripts Translations and Commentaries from Manuscripts Incomplete Translations and Commentaries (Circa 1902-1912) Kena and Other Upanishads The Great Aranyaka: A Commentary on the Brihad Aranyak Upanishad [ note ] - situations requiring textual explication; all such information is printed in italics [word] - word(s) omitted by the author... material forms & energies as external symbols & shadows of deeper & ever deeper internal realities. It is not my intention here nor is it in my limits possible to develop the philosophy of the Great Aranyaka Upanishad, but only to develop with just sufficient amplitude for entire clearness the ideas contained in its language & involved in its figures. The business of my commentary is to lay a foundation; ...
... to which reference is made in the Brihadaranyka Upanishad in its famous prayer: असतो मा सद् गमय | तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय | मृत्यैऽमा अमुतम॒गमय | Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I.3.28 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28. Lead me from the unreal to the Real; Lead me from darkness to Light; Lead me from death to Immortality. And the Vedic seers have laid ...
... immortal, even here he possesses the Eternal. [Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (IV. 4. 7.)](https://upanishads.org.in/upanishads/12/4/4/7) He becomes the Eternal and departs into the Eternal. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (IV. 4. 6.) This bodiless and immortal Life and Light is the Brahman. [Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (IV. 4. 7.)](https://upanishads.org.in/upanishads... narrow is the ancient Path,—I have touched it, I have found it,—the Path by which the wise, knowers of the Eternal, attaining to salvation, depart hence to the high world of Paradise. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (IV. 4. 8.) I am a son of Earth, the soil is my mother.... May she lavish on me her manifold treasure, her secret riches.... May we speak the beauty of thee, O Earth, that is ...
... × Avyavahāryam. × Chhandogya and Brihadaranyaka Upanishads. × Gita. ...
... pursuit of knowledge. We may also mention Pippalada, a great sage in the Prashna Upanishad. Raikva is the name of the cart driver whom the King Janashruti approached for instruction. In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, we have a vivid account of the supremacy ofYajnavalkya. According to the story, Yajnavalkya's guru, Uddalaka Amni, could not hold his own in a disputation with him in a vast assembly of ... Kaushitakeya, and Gargi Vachaknavi. We should also Page 59 mention Maitreyi, a learned wife of Yajnavalkya, who "was conversant with Brahman". One of the famous dialogues in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is between Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi. This dialogue occurs when Yajnavalkya is about to renounce the life of a householder for that of a hermit, and he proposes to divide his wealth between... though it has yielded to various interpretations. There are more than two hundred Upanishads. But the principal Upanishads are between eight and twelve. Isha, Kena, Kama, Prashna, Chhandogya, Brihadaranyaka, Mundaka, Mandukya, Taittiriya and Shvetashvatara are the most prominent. The stories that we have selected for this book are taken from the Chhandogya Upanishad and Katha Upanishad. The ...
... The symbolism of the horse is quite evident in the hymns of Dirghatamas to the Horse of the Sacrifice, the hymns of various Rishis to the Horse Dadhikravan and again in the opening of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad in which "Dawn is the head of the Horse" is the first phrase of a very elaborate figure. ...
... pursuit of knowledge. We may also mention Fippalada, a great sage in the Prashna Upanishad. Raikva is the name of the cart driver whom the King Janashruti approached for instruction. In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, we have a vivid account of the supremacy of Yajnavalkya. According to the story, Yajnavalkya's guru, Uddalaka Aruni, could not hold his own in a disputation with him in a vast assembly of... Chakrayana, Kahoda Kaushitakeya, and Gargi Vachaknavi. We should also mention Maitreyi, a learned wife of Yajnavalkya, who 'was conversant with Brahman'. One of the famous dialogues in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is between Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi. This dialogue occurs when Yajnavalkya is about to renounce the life of a householder for that of a hermit, and he proposes to divide his wealth between... to various interpretations. There are more than two hundred Upanishads. But the principal Upanishads are between eight and twelve. Isa, Kena, Katha, Page 66 Prashna, Chhandogya, Brihadaranyaka, Mundaka, Mandukya, Taittiriya and Shvetashvatara are the most prominent. The stories that we have selected below for this book are taken from the Chhandogya Upanishad and Katha Upanishad. ...
... source of desire and attachment. Repulsion and attraction removed, we have samatva . × Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. ...
... knowledge." 4 While in. this normal waking consciousness, a man becomes 1 The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 498-99. 2 Vide, in particular, Mandukya Upanishad and Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. 3 4 Letters on Yoga, p. 348. Page 71 externalised and gazes outward and rarely if ever inward (paraṁ paśyati nāntarātmari) 1 . Hence the self in this status ...
... "The Fear of Death and the Four Methods of Conquering It", Bulletin of Physical Education, February 1954. 2 Babylonian mythology. 3 Katha Upanishad, II.1.10. 4 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, I .2.1. 5 Taittiriya Upanishad, II.2. 6 Vide : D. Merejkovsky, Les Myst è res de l'Orient, p. 299. Page 408 A total victory over Time is another ...
... manifestation being in essence love directed to the Divine alone, has been beautifully brought out in Rishi Yajnavalkya's famous dialogue with his aspirant wife Maitreyi as recounted in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. There, the Rishi explains to his wife that"not for the sake of the husband is the husband dear to the wife but for the sake of the Self that is in the husband" - "Na vā are patyu kāmāya ...
... annamupāssva 4 , for "verily, this food represents the world-sustaining figure of the great godhead Vishnu." 5 1 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, pp. 50-51. 2 Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad, 5.12. 3 4 Chhandogya Upanishad, 7.9.1. 5 Maitri Upanishad, VI. 13. Page 229 But it is really intriguing to ponder over this capital importance ...
... 259,302 avyakta 302 B Beddoes 197 Benson, Robert Hugh 23 Binyon, Laurence 210,223 Blake 153,197 blank-verse 102,215 Brahma-muhurta 253 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 302 brhat 302 Browning, Elizabeth 60,161 C Celtic fire and ether 197 ChadwickJohnA. 266 Chandidas 126 Chapman 189 Chattopadhyaya, Harindranath 36 ...
... Ibid., VI.23. 68 Mandaka Upanishad, 1.1,3.9. 69 Ibid,. II, 1.1. 2 70 Ibid., II, 1,10, 71 Ibid- III. 1.1-3, 72 Ibid. III 1,5-7. 73 Isha Upanishad, 1. 74 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 1.1.1, 2, 75 Ibid., III. 1.1.2. 76 Ibid, III .6 77 Ibid., 11,4.1.14, 78 Vide., RV., V.2,3. 79 Kena Upanishad, IV.8, 9. 80 Sri Aurobindo, The Upanishads, Vol ...
... strange enough in character to produce any impression of bewilderment. But in those great & profound Upanishads built on a larger plan, which form the bulk of the early Vedanta, the Chandogya, the Brihad Aranyaka, the Kaushitaki, the Taittiriya, even the Aitareya, this unintelligible residuum becomes the major portion, sometimes almost the great mass of the writing. Often we feel ourselves to be in a mighty... most suggestive ideas that mankind has ever had about the mysteries of existence. Which of us can entirely enter into and identify himself with the ideas and images of the second chapter in the Brihad Aranyaka? Yet there are few profounder thoughts in philosophical literature than its great central idea of Ashanaya Mrityu, Hunger who is Death, as the builder of this material world. But who will be our ...
... Page 427 × The correspondent asked for an explanation of certain terms in a passage (3.6.1) from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.—Ed. × The correspondent asked for a clarification of verse 7 of the Isha Upanishad, which ...
... Chapter XX Death, Desire and Incapacity In the beginning all was covered by Hunger that is Death; that made for itself Mind so that it might attain to possession of self. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (I. 2. 1.) This is the Power discovered by the mortal that has the multitude of its desires so that it may sustain all things; it takes the taste of all foods and builds a house ...
... won. And it is this immortality to which reference is made in the Brihadaranyka Upanishad in its famous prayer: असतो मा सद्गमय । तमसो मा ज्योर्तिगमय । मृर्त्योऽमा अमृतम् गमय । । Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I.3.28 Lead me from the unreal to the Real; Lead me from darkness to Light; Lead me from death to Immortality. Page 442 And the Vedic seers have laid down that immortality ...
... if not all that comes afterwards, yet the central and pervading idea of the Upanishad. The Isha Vasyam of the Vajasaneyi, the Keneshitam manas of the Talavakara, the Sacrificial Horse of the Brihad Aranyaka, the solitary Atman with its hint of the future world vibrations in the Aitareya are of this type. The Chhandogya, we see from its first and introductory sentence, is to be a work on the right ...
... SWAHAKAR and VASHATKAR, men upon the third, HANTAKAR, and the Ancestor upon the fourth, SWADHA¹ – Ritualistically these four terms are the formulae for oblation ¹ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, V. 8.і. Page 15 to four Deities, Powers or Presences, whom the sacrificer wishes to please and propitiate in order to have their help and blessing and in order thereby to... dreams), a psychological alchemy, whose method and process and rationale are very obscure, which can be penetrated only by the vision of a third eye. I. THE SEVERAL LIGHTS The Brihadaranyaka speaks of several lights that man possesses, one in the absence of another, for his illumination and guidance. First of all, he has the Sun; it is the primary light by which he lives and moves... the Gods.4 Man has two aspects or natures; he dwells in two worlds. The first is the manifest world-the world of the body, the life ¹ Karmaņā pitŗloka vidyayā devolokah (jayyāh) – Brihadaranyaka, 1.5.16. ² Devalokādādityam... pitrlokāccandram 0 Ibid., VI. 2.15.16. ³Cāndram mano bhūtvā – Aitareya, 1.2.4; Manasascandramāh – Ibid., 1.1.4. 4Divīva caksurātatam – Rig Veda ...
... existence. Page 19 × "Padbhyāṁ pṛthivī." — Mundaka Upanishad , II. 1. 4. "Pṛthivī pājasyam." — Brihadaranyaka Upanishad , I. 1. 1. × Kena Upanishad , I. 3. ...
... This Page 92 is the essential secret of the Vedic system of yoga, and it is same search that we find implicitly in all the principal Upanishads and even explicitly as in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. 7. Life-force that pulsates in the whole universe is inherently synthetic and all-integrating. Even at the level of instinct, triple force acts in a combination, and there is not only ...
... He who has the knowledge "I am Brahman" becomes all this that is; but whoever worships another divinity than the One Self and thinks, "Other is he and I am other", he knows not. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (I. 4. 10.) This Self is fourfold—the Self of Waking who has the outer intelligence and enjoys external things, is its first part; the Self of Dream who has the inner intelligence ...
... records of the yogic experiences that we find in the pages of the Upanishads. There are, however, a few passages in the Chhandogya Upanishad, Shwetashwatara Upanishad, Mundaka Upanishad, and Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, which need to be underlined even within our limited scope. Here are a few extracts from Chhandogya Upanishad, which contain the famous Upanishadic affirmation, "tat tvam asi (That art... farness, it is here close to us, for those who have vision it is even here in this world; it is here, hidden in the secret heart."72 [v] Finally, we may take a few passages from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad which is considered to be the profoundest of the Upanishads. The language of this Upanishad is so remote that the ideas expressed in that language appear to be highly obscure. The language... and one of the rare mystics who had attained the realization of the integral Brahman, and who was also radical and even militant in the sharpness of behaviour. In the third chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and in the first Brahmana, it is narrated that when Janaka, the king of Videha, in an assembly of seekers and mystics had gathered at a sacrifice, a question was asked by him as to who among ...
... sanskaras of asceticism & mere renunciation have only now expired. (2) उक्थं प्राणो वा उक्थं प्राणो हीदं सर्वमुत्थापयत्युद्धास्मादुक्थविद् वीरस्तिष्ठत्युक्थस्य सायुज्यं सलोकतां जयति य एवं वेद ।। Brihad Aranyaka. Uktham (prayer) is here the ishita and to show me that ishita (lipsa without bondage) is one with prayer, the latter rose again at night at the moment of the final establishment of the dasya... an answer to the anxiety in the annamaya mind about the sharirayatra. (4) तत्कुलमाचक्षते यस्मिन्कुले भवति य एवं वेद य उ हैवंविदा स्पर्धतेऽनुशुष्यत्यनुशुष्य हैवान्ततो म्रियत इत्यध्यात्मं । Brihad Aranyaka. An answer to doubts about the activity of ill-wishers. 2 July 1912 Nothing of decisive importance today. The vani is active. It seems that the faculty of rapid interpretation of the ...
... the Self that one knows all this that is.... All betrays him who sees all elsewhere than in the Self; for all this that is is the Brahman, all beings and all this that is are this Self. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (IV. 5. 15, 7.) The Self-Existent has pierced the doors of sense outward, therefore one sees things outwardly and sees not in one's inner being. Rarely a sage desiring immortality... the hearing of the hearer... the knowing of the knower, for they are indestructible; but it is not a second or other than and separate from himself that he sees, speaks to, hears, knows. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (IV. 3. 23-30.) Our surface cognition, our limited and restricted mental way of looking at our self, at our inner movements and at the world outside us and its objects and happenings ...
... Dutta (1863-1902), the most famous disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and one of the great spiritual teachers of modern India. Yajnavalkya —a famous Rishi who figures prominently in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Yoga — 1. joining, union; union with the Divine and the conscious seeking for this union. Yoga is in essence the union of the soul with the immortal being and consciousness and ...
... mind, concealed it from the un-Aryan. Agni is the white horse which appears galloping in front of the days, - the same image is used with a similar Vedantic sense in the opening verse of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad; but the horse here is not, as in the Upanishad, aśva, the horse of vital and material being in the state of life-force, but vāji, the horse of Being generally, Being manifested in substance ...
... the Indian atmosphere, inspiring veneration and obeissance — the names of Vishwamitra and Vashishtha, Vamadeva and Bharadwaja, Madhuchhandas and Dirghatamas, Gritsamada and 1. In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, it is said: "Therefore let the seeker, after he has done with learning, wish to stand by real strength (knowledge of the Sell) which enables us to dispense with all other knowledge" (iii ...
... like the Knowledge. The karmasiddhi will now begin in sahitya, dharma, kriti, sri, not yet káma. Sahitya — Rig-Veda—reading only— Vedanta—Isha Upanishad Commentary (The Life Divine), Brihad Aranyaka, translation. Philology—Dictionary. Vowel Roots, Origins of Aryan Speech. Poetry—Ilion, Eric, Idylls of Earth & Heaven. Bhasha—Sanscrit, French, Bengali. Page 314 Rupadrishti ...
... the beating of everybody into one amorphous shape, a disabused denial of all ideals on one side and on the other a blind "shut-my-eyes _______________ * "Earth is his footing" (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 1.1.1), "in matter he has taken his firm foundation" (Mundaka Upanishad, II.2.8). Page 194 and shut-everybody's-eyes" plunge into the bog in the hope of finding some ...
... and Light, and the ultimate conquest of Light, which is Truth, which is also Immortality; and the conquest involves a travelling, a pursuit, a reaching, a winning. The celebrated chant in the Brihadaranyaka— Lead me from the unreal to the real! Lead me from darkness to light! Lead me from death to immortality! splendorously crystallises this inner spiritual ...
... knowledge of the Purusha, no bigger than a thumb, as man's central self is given. 13. Chhandogya Upanishad 4.11.1. 14. Ibid., 6.8.7. Page 107 15. Ibid., 3.14.1; also Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.19. 16. The tradition of transmission of the recitation of the Samhitas gave rise to various recensions or Shakhas. The total number of Shakhas in the ancient period was 1131 but... dwelling on the Upanishads. Important Upanishads are: Aitareya, Mandukya and Kaushitaki, which are related to Rig Veda; Taittiriya, Kama and Shweteshwatara which are related to Krishna Yajurveda; Brihadaranyaka and Isha, which are related to Shukla Yajurveda; Kena and Chhandogya, which are related to Sama Veda; and Prashna and Mundaka, which are related to Atharva Veda. 12. We may also refer to the ...
... tueri tuit: look), etc. 2. Savitri, Book II, Canto X, p. 243. 3.Abel Rey, La Science dans l'Antiquit é , p. 445. 4.Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga p. 290. 5. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Page 123 Man is thus impelled almost imperatively to fall back upon some imaged background even in the ethereal domains of abstract thought, or rather — we should say — ...
... Now what exactly is this wonderful thing ? This power that brings into being the non-being, realises the impossible? Whose is this Call, from where does it come? It is none 1 Brihadaranyaka, IV. 2.23 Page 19 other than the call of your own inmost being, of your secret self. It is the categorical imperative of the Divine seated within your heart. Indeed the first... only initiation that is valid and fruitful. Initiation does not mean necessarily an external rite or ceremony, a mantra, an auspicious day or moment: all these things, are useless and * Brihadaranyaka, 4-4-13 Page 25 irrelevant once we take our stand on the authentic self-competence of the soul. The moment the inner being has taken the decision that this time, in this life ...
... Sight 26 Rig-Veda, VI. 9-5. 27. Ibid., I. 46-7. 28. Rig-Veda, IV. 52-4. 29.Is ha Upanishad, 14. 30. Rig-Veda, III. 61-3. 31.IS ha Upanishad, 7. 32. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. 33.Cf. 'R ṣ ir dar ś an ā t' (Yaska's Nirukta, II. 3.3). 34.Compare: "...All creation is an act of light" (Savitri, Book II, Canto XV). "...all-knowing Light." ( Savitri, ...
... When a spiritually wise man dies, his life-energy (prana-shakti) pierces the Brahmarandhra and passes out of the body following the Murdhanya or Sushumna Nadi. Thus, we read in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (IV. 4. 2): "Hṛdayasyagraṁ dyotate, tena pradyotena eṣa ātmā niṣkramati cakṣustho va mūrdhṇo vā..." "The heart centre gets illuminated at the moment of death and the Atma ...
... phenomenal existence, the world of meandering multiplicity, surely Atman or Brahman, the ultimate Self of selves, the single supreme Reality would be the very opposite. And actually we have the Brihadaranyaka (IV.4.25) saying:"Brahman is indeed fearless. He who knows it as such certainly becomes the fearless Brahman." Again, the same Upanishad (IV.2.4) figures Yajnavalkya exclaiming: "You have... Shankara and his ilk, the Upanishads rarely allude to moksha or mukti , "freedom, liberation". I can find only one reference anticipating in a general manner the sense of mukti . The Brihadaranyaka (IV.2.8) has the expression: "being freed". Obviously the Upanishads are more psychological than philosophical in rendering their spirituality. In this respect they connect up with the Rigveda ...
... Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (SABCL), 1971, Pondicherry, Vol. 12, pp.226-7. 59 There are more than two hundred Upanishads, but most important of them are twelve in number. They are: Brihadaranyaka, Chhandogya, Taittiriya, Aitareya, Kaushitaki, Kena, Katha, Isha, Mundaka, Prashna, Mandukya, and Shwetashwatara. 60 Bhagavad Gita, II. 54,72. Page 71 61 Ibid. n.62,63. ...
... 99, 101 Ulysses, 293 Page 433 Upanishads, the, 10, 13, 29, 57, 63, 68, 71, 74, 78n., 83, 120, 143-4, 180, 207, 225, 263, 305 -Aitar_a,80,83 -Brihadaranyaka, 71n., 74n. -Isha, 158n. -Katha, 29n., 31n., 68n., 78n. -Kena, 29n., 162n. -Mundaka, 68n. -Swetaswatara, 68n. VAIKUNTHA,128 Valmiki,209 Varma, Ravi, 420 ...
... crookednesses and becomes high, beautiful and glorious. Rig Veda. (I. 95. 4, 5.) From the non-being to true being, from the darkness to the Light, from death to Immortality. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (I. 3. 28.) A spiritual evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling spirit, is then the ...
... phenomenal existence, the world of meandering multiplicity, surely Atman or Brahman, the ultimate Self of selves, the single supreme Reality would be the very opposite. And actually we have the Brihadaranyaka (IV. 4.25) saying: "Brahman is indeed fearless. He who knows it as such certainly becomes the fearless Brahman." Again, the same Upanishad (TV.2.4) figures Yajnavalkya exclaiming: "You have obtained... unlike Shankara and his ilk, the Upanishads rarely allude to moksha or mukti, "freedom, liberation". I can find only one reference anticipating in a general manner the sense of mukti. The Brihadaranyaka (IV.2.8) has the expression: "being freed." Obviously the Upanishads are more psychological in a poetic way than philosophical in an abstract manner in rendering their spirituality. In this respect ...
... "These questions are asked with reference to an old Indian tradition, the occult knowledge of the sage-king Page 332 Pravanahana who is mentioned in the Upanishads (Chhandogya and Brihadaranyaka): "It is said that after death, the soul of one who has done good deeds takes the path of the ancestors, 'pitriyana', it becomes smoke, night, etc., attains to the world of the fathers and ...
... Purusha, the solitary Swan. They say, "the country of waking only is his, for the things which he sees when awake, these only he sees when asleep"; but there he is his own self-light. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (IV. 3. 7, 9-12, 14.) What is seen and what is not seen, what is experienced and what is not experienced, what is and what is not,—all it sees, it is all and sees. Prasna ...
... the Gods. 4 Man has two aspects or natures; he dwells in two worlds. The first is the manifest world—the world of the body, the life 1 Karmapa pitrloko vidyaya devalokah (jayyaft)—Brihadaranyaka, 1.5.16. 2 Devalokddadityam. .pitrlokaccandram—Ibid., VI. 2.15.16. 3 Candram mono bhutva—Aitareya, 1.2.4; Manasascandramah-Ibitl., 1.1.4. 4 Diviva caksuratatam—Rig Veda. ... well-known triplets: (i) the superior: Sat, Chit, Ananda; and (ii) the inferior: Body, Life and Mind—this being a reflection or translation or concretisation of the former. We can see also 1 Brihadaranyaka III.9. Page 362 here how the dual principle comes in, the twin godhead or the two gods to which Yajnavalkya refers. The same principle is found in the conception of Ardhanarishwara... according to one view of creation, as dividing into three forms or aspects —the well-known Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra of Hindu mythology. These may be termed the first or primary emanations. 1 Brihadaranyaka 1.4. Page 363 Now, each one of them in its turn has its own emanations—the eleven Rudriyas are familiar. These are secondary and there are tertiary and other graded emanations—the ...
... IX Conclusion and Summary The isha Upanishad is one of the more ancient of the Vedantic writings in style, substance and versification, subsequent certainly to the Chhandogya, Brihadaranyaka and perhaps to the Taittiriya and Aitareya, but certainly the most antique of the extant metrical Upanishads. Upanishadic thought falls naturally into two great periods; in one, the earlier, it ...
... picture that tells us something about the lines or circumstances of ancient Indian education. Page 16 We know that the Upanishads are classed with the Aranyaka literature; the Brihadaranyaka is a well-known name. The forest life of the recluse was in those days intimately associated with education and learning, and especially with the spiritual disciplines. The injunction for the seeker ...
... Transcendent One and sees the process of the creation of duality from the original Identity, each of these lines adds an aspect and a colour to the apparent self-division of the One. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad expresses it thus: It is not a second or other than, and separate from himself that he sees, speaks to, hears, knows. While describing the spirit of man struggling in this... p. 60. 36 Rig Veda X: 129:1; SABCL, Vol. 10, p. 306. 37 Savitri, p. 61. 38 Ibid.,p. 71 . Page 117 This vision echoes the well-known aspiration of the Brihadaranyaka: Lead me from darkness to Light From death to immortality. The One as the basis of the multiple expression is beautifully figured in Canto I of Book II where the silence of the ...
... picture that tells us something about the lines or circumstances of ancient Indian education. Page 130 We know that the Upanishads are classed with the Aranyaka literature; the Brihadaranyaka is a well-known name. The forest life of the recluse was in those days intimately associated with education and learning, and especially with the spiritual disciplines. The injunction for the ...
... truth of God and Spirit, from Darkness and Sleep to Light and Awakening, from Time and Mortality to Timelessness Page 405 and Immortality, recalling the prayer of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: Om from falsehood to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. WILLIAM C. FLICK Page 406 ...
... the, 6, 8-9, ll-12, 15, 23, 25-30, 35, 37, 39-40, 50, 53, 57, 69, 73, 75, 77, 82-3, 96, 103-4, 120, 129,132, 149, 182,250,264-5, 281, 368 Page 375 -Aitareya, 18n -Brihadaranyaka, 14, 15n., 18n., 29-30n -Chhandogya, 12, 20n., 25 -Katha, 19n., 69n -Prasna, 38 -Taittiriya, 44n V AIKUNTHA, 100 Vaishnavism, 100 Valery, 88 Valmiki, 39-40, 62, 73 ...
... time, in this life, in this very body, it will manifest itself, take possession of the body and life and mind and wait no more, at that moment itself all mantra has been uttered and all ¹ Brihadaranyaka, IV. 4. 13 Page 74 initiation taken. The disciple has made the final and definitive offering of his heart to his Guru - the psychic Guru – and sought refuge in him and the Guru ...
... goes in his subtle body to wherever his mind cleaves, then, coming to the end of his Karma, even of whatsoever action he does here, he returns from that world to this world for Karma. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (IV. 4. 5, 6.) Equipped with qualities, a doer of works and creator of their consequences, he reaps the result of his actions; he is the ruler of the life and he moves in his ...
... aspect. Aspiration and prayer are both of value in the spiritual life and sometimes it is difficult to distinguish them. How would Page 101 one characterise the famous cry of the Brihadaranyaka Upa-nishad?- From the unreal lead us to the Real, From the darkness lead us to the Light, From death lead us to Immortality. As in most of the Upanishadic verses the fundamental ...
... seeker, as the bourne from which no traveller would want to return. In "New Country" the spiritual seeker in Arjava has expressed the action of the Supreme on the human soul's ancient cry which the Brihadaranyaka Upa-nishad has caught: From Appearance lead us to Reality, From Darkness lead us to Light, From Death lead us to Immortality. "New Country" is a very powerful, very ...
... truth from above or truth from below as the substance out of which it builds itself and both are pressing upon it to turn its misconstructions into truth of life and truth of spirit.) Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. (V. 5. 1.) Page 618 If ignorance is in its nature a self-limiting knowledge oblivious of the integral self-awareness and confined to an exclusive concentration in a ...
... "All life is fixed in an ascending scale And adamantine is the evolving Law..." (Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Cent. Ed., p. 342) Page 24 Even the Rishi of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad declared a few thousand years ago: "Anyat navataraṁ kalyānataraṁ rūpam kurute" - "A body discarded will be followed not only by a new one but by a better-adapted, more auspicious one." ...
... Ignorance to the original Consciousness or Superconscience. Page 498 × Prājñā . Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad states very positively that there are two planes or states of the being which are two worlds, and that in the dream state one can see both worlds, for the dream state is intermediate between ...
... free from their cage the poet's “millions of golden birds.” Page 47 What shall I do with that by which the nectar of immortality is not obtained? Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, IV.5.4 7 Our Human Task Time and again I have attempted to tell that fabulous discovery, with something like despair. This thinking tool had been given to us ...
... a classic of Vedantic thought and literature. There are also his commentaries (or, Bhasya) on the ten principal Upanishads: Isha, Kena, Katha, Prasna, Mundaka, Mandukya, Aitareya, Taittiriya, Brihadaranyaka and Chhandogya; and the commentary on the Bhagavadgita. A large body of popular hymns and stotras too were composed by him. In our attempt to reach out to the experience made by Shankara ...
... Passages of great literature can also be an indispensable aid. We rightly look upon Upanishads as the supreme literature of India, and passages of Upanishads like those of Isha, Kena, Chhandogya, Brihadaranyaka and others can uplift students to very great heights of aspirations and even of practice of the realisation of the Ultimate Reality. Profound passages from great thinkers like Plato can ignite ...
... outcome of the Vedic discipline and experience. The time in which the Vedantic truth was wholly seen and the Upanishads took shape, was, as we can discern from such records as the Chhandogya and Brihadaranyaka, an epoch of immense and strenuous seeking, an intense and ardent seed-time of the Page 203 Spirit. In the stress of that seeking the truths held by the initiates but kept back from ...
... is the offering wood." Also Chhando 1.4 )" That Sun - the son of Aditi - is the honey of the Gods " where the Sun and Honey both are openly symbolic. The opening verse of the Brihadaranyaka shows not only that sacrifice was symbolic but that the universe itself is symbolised as the Horse-Sacrifice, Ashwamedha. This is the Ashwamedha in which Samudra is spoken as related to ...
... expounded to Arjuna. "Slay thy desire", — these are the unambiguous words of the method of Karma Yoga. The image of the cosmic horse or of the life-force that we find in the very beginning of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is the image of life-force that arises from the ocean of the Inconscience which is driven by desire or Hunger; it is that Hunger that is subsequently in the same Upanishad described as Death; ...
... the higher self, the Atman or the Brahman.' In spite of its specialized domains and crowning realizations, yogic research constantly strove to combine various systems of In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, it is said: "Therefore let the seeker, after he has done with learning, wish to stand by real strength (knowledge of the Self) which enables us to dispense with all other knowledge' (iii ...
... their meaning. There is much gold in the sands of the bed which no man has thought of disinterring. The Isha Upanishad is simpler in form & expression than such writings as the Chhandogya & Brihad Aranyaka which contain in their symbolic expressions,—to us obscure & meaningless, disparaged by many as violently bizarre in idea & language & absurd in substance,—more of the detail of old Vedic knowledge ...
... the Brahmanas culminating in the Aranyakas which in their turn terminate in the Upanishads. But there are exceptions. For example, the Aitareya Aranyaka introduces the Rigveda Samhita, while the Brihadaranyaka itself is an Upanishad. These four divisions of the Veda are said to correspond to the four stages of human life. In the first stage, the foremost duty of a Brahmachari (a student practising ...
... many forms", it is simply crystallizing the one general idea on which the whole of Indian thought takes its stand and to which the whole tendency of modern science returns. The opening of the Brihadaranyakopanishad powerfully foreshadows the theory that hunger & the struggle for life (ashanaya mrityu) are the principle agents in life-development. But it was not in this aspect of the law of creation that ...
... estimated by the nearness with which they “touched” him,—nedistham pasparsha. Uma the daughter of Himavan, the Woman, who reveals the truth to them is clearly enough no natural phenomenon. In the Brihadaranyaka, the most profound, subtle & mystical of human scriptures, the gods & Titans are the masters, respectively, of good and of evil. In the Upanishads generally the word devah is used as almost synonymous ...
... 5. Ibid., 1.92.6. (See SABCL, Vol. 10, p. 432) 6. Ibid., VII.76.4. (See SABCL, Vol. 10, p.123) 7. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 10, p. 43 8. Isha, 1 9. Brihadaranyaka, III. VII. 3ff. 10. Taittiriya, II 7; III. 6 11. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 14, p. 105 12. Ibid., pp. 106, 116-17 13. Ibid., p.295 14. From Sri Aurobindo's ...
... × 16 Rig Veda, I.179.1. × 17 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, IV.5.4. × 18 Thoughts and Aphorisms, no. 383. ...
... BY R.R. DIWAKAR 1.RAIKWA, THE CART-DRIVER—Chhandogya Upanishad 2.SATYAKAMA, THE TRUTH-SEEKER—Chhandogya Upanishad 3.THE BOLD BEGGAR—Upanishads 4.THUS SPAKE YAJNAVALKYA—Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 5.THUS SPAKE UDDALAKA ARUNI—Chhandogya Upanishad 6.THE FIVE SHEATHS—Taittriya Upanishad 7.THE BLISS OF BRAHMAN—Taittriya Upanishad SUFI STORIES BY IDRIES SHAH 1 ...
... × 144 Taittiriya Upanishad X. × 145 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I.4.10 × 146 See Sri Aurobindo, Eight Upanishads , X.XI. ...
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