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Upanishad

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Upanishad (plural Upanishads)

Any of a set of authorless Hindu religious and philosophical texts considered to be an early source of the religion, found mostly as the concluding part of the Brahmanas and in the Aranyakas.

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Divinity should not be given to you from somewhere else. The Upanishad thunders "Thou Art That. Chinmayananda Saraswati

Anyone who worships a divinity other than the Self is called a domestic animal of the gods in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Source: Internet

For the date of this Upanishad see also Helmuth von Glasenapp, from the 1950 Proceedings of the "Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur" citation Katha Upanishad integrates the monism of early Upanishads with concepts of samkhya and yoga. Source: Internet

Lopamudra is the author of one hymn in the Rigveda, and Gargi Vachaknavi is described in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad as a highly respected woman in the field of Brahmajñāna. Source: Internet

From the micro to the macro, from the self to the universe, there are five layers of our existence that have been progressively unveiled in this Upanishad. Source: Internet

It is explained as law of righteousness and equated to satya (Sanskrit: सतय, truth), in hymn 1.4.14 of Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, as follows: धरमः तसमादधरमात पर नासतय अथो अबलीयान बलीयासमाशसत धरमण यथा राजञवम । Source: Internet

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