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Upanishads

Upanishads

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A collection of ancient Hindu religious writings in Sanskrit about spiritual and philosophical ideas
  • noun
  • /ʊˈpɑːnɪʃɑːdz/
  • Literature
: Upanishads
  • A Hindu jnana yogi might reflect on his or her assumptions about the nature of the self, considering the thesis found in the Upanishads that the deepest aspect of the self, the atman, is being or ultimate reality itself.

Instead, we are meditating on the scriptures like the Upanishads and we're like diving into that.

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Examples

  • Consider the famous "Thou art that" of the Upanishads.

    Academic text (1997)

  • In the Upanishads, we read that by understanding the Self, all this universe is known.

    Academic text (1991)

  • Here we are finally led, in the words of the Upanishads, from the unreal to the real.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The Upanishads and Vedas spoke of this repeatedly.

    Blog text (27)

  • In the Upanishads, women philosophers such as Vacaknavi challenged the ideas of Yajnavalka, her male counterpart.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The Upanishads do put forth the claim that humanity can be led astray, but they do not teach that the world is a game of shadows, absolute illusion, or non-truth.

    Academic text (2018)

  • I would suggest that you start with the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads in the Penguin Classics versions, translated by Juan Mascaro.

    Blog text (24)

  • In any case, the Upanishads taught that the only completely satisfying end to life was union with the ultimate Ground of Reality, called Brahman, and that the manifest world we see about us is nothing but Brahman's maya or appearance.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Within the Hindu fold, the "high" efforts to achieve this were classically represented by the Upanishads (part of the canon of sacred scriptures) and the Vedanta philosophy.

    Blog text (7)

  • The philosophical teachings in the Upanishads explore the nature of ultimate reality and self.

Synonyms

Upanishad
vsUpanishads
  • Literature
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A sacred Hindu text that teaches about the self and ultimate reality

is the collective term for several such texts forming the basis of later Hindu thought

Surface Forms

Upanishads singular
Upanishads plural

Etymology

Upanishads comes from Sanskrit parts upa ('near') and niṣad ('to sit down'), meaning 'sitting near' a teacher. That's why the Upanishads are books of inner, often secret teachings and deep ideas a student learned while sitting close to a teacher.