Upanishad

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• The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (4.4.5-6) explains how the law of karma predetermines the soul's future birth:

  Academic text (2001)

• Urquhart allows that the Vedas are optimistic and positive about the things of this world, but the more influential and credibly more definite Upanishads, and the whole Vedanta tradition, are, he thinks, deeply pessimistic.

  Academic text (1997)

• But, says the Upanishad (4.4.6),

  Academic text (2001)

• (See especially 'The Education of Svetaketu' in the Chandogya Upanishad dialogue 10)

  Academic text (1997)

• Chandogya Upanishad 42

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• In the Upanishad, we find the phrase "Tat tvam asi."

  Blog text (32)

• Brahman, says the Mundaka Upanishad, "is the Inner Self of all." (n67)

  Academic text (1999)

• Upanishad explores deep philosophical concepts such as the nature of reality and the self.

• Many scholars consider the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad to be one of the most important texts in Hindu philosophy.

• In the Katha Upanishad, the relationship between the soul and the ultimate reality is profoundly described.

Synonyms

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Upanishads

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• Literature

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A collection of ancient Hindu religious writings in Sanskrit about spiritual and philosophical ideas

is a single sacred text within that collection rather than the whole set

Surface Forms

Etymology