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	Upanishads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the quietude of the forest hermitages the Upanishad thinkers pondered on the problems of deepest concerns and communicated their knowledge to fit pupils near them.
		Samkara derives the word Upanishad as a substitute from the root sad, 'to loosen.,' 'to reach' or 'to destroy' with Upa and ni as prefixes and kvip as termination.
		The Upanishads more clearly set forth the prime Vedic doctrines like Self-realization, yoga and meditation, karma and reincarnation, which were hidden or kept veiled under the symbols of the older mystery religion.
	www.hindunet.org /upanishads (334 words)

	Hinduism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Uttara ("later") Mimamsa school is perhaps one of the cornerstone movements of Hinduism and certainly was responsible for a new wave of philosophical and meditative inquiry, renewal of faith, and cultural reform.
		Primarily associated with the Upanishads and their commentary by Badarayana, the Vedanta Sutras, Vedanta thought split into three groups, initiated by the thinking and writing of Adi Sankara.
		The term ahimsa first appears in the Upanishads, and is the first of the five Yamas, or eternal vows/restraints in Raja Yoga.
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	Upanishads - Essense of the Vedas - Indian Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The term Upanishad literally means, sitting down under a tree, and they were mostly composed in the form of a dialogue between a guru and his disciple, where questions are posed and answers to them found on the basis of reason and the proof in the Vedas.
		The Chandogya Upanishad is attached to the Sama Veda.
		The later upanishads are the Prashna Upanishad, the Shvetashvatara Upanishad (which worships Shiva), the Mandukya Upanishad, the Mahanarayana Upanishad, The Jabala Upanishad, and the Vajrasuchika Upanishad.
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	Essentials of the Upanishads
		The central theme of Upanishads is Monotheism or the delineation of a Supreme Being as the cardinal principle of the universe.
		Upanishads are also clear about the reality of the external world (other than the souls) and state it clearly more than once.
		The rest of the Upanishad is an excellent exposition of the nature of God, the fact of His being a regulator after death and Liberation, necessity of controlling the senses and the methodology of Yoga.
	www.dvaita.org /shaastra/upanishad.html (8354 words)

	The Upanishad,Theology of Hinduism,Upanishads of Ancient India
		The term Upanishad means ('upa' near; 'ni' down; 'shad' to sit) sitting down near; this implies the students sitting down near their Guru to learn the big secret.
		The purpose of this Upanishad is to make the reader understand the deeper meaning of sacrifice and to take him away from the outer trappings of the actual act.
		This is a comparatively later Upanishad and there are two main reasons to believe this: first of all, it has references to the Trinity of Hindu Gods (Shiva the destroyer, Vishnu the preserver and Brahma the creator) which is a later development, and plus references to the world being illusory in character reflects Buddhist influence.
	www.indiasite.com /scriptures/upanishads.html (1051 words)

	An introduction to the Upanishads
		The Upanishads constitute what we call the Vedanta (Veda-anta), the end of the Vedas, not merely because they constitute the last part of them, but above all because they are their ultimate teachings, reaching to the highest metaphysical state, beyond which is the realm of Silence.
		The Upanishads are the first scriptures where the law of Karma first appeared as taught by Yajnavalkya (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad).
		Upanishads are the work of different authors and, apart the ‘great Upanishads’ belonging to the sruti and which are in prose, we cannot say that they constitute a strictly speaking system of philosophy, some of them being connected to certain particular sects, such as the cult of Shiva, Vishnu, Durga, Ganesha, Surya, etc.
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	Upanishad \| ઉપનિષદ
		Nonethless, the knowldge of Upanishad was passed on in this way by Rishies of yore to their disciples and to date, it withstood the terbulence of time.
		Upanishads are considered as the backbone of Hinduism.
		Upanishads are acknowledged as pinnacle of human wisdom.
	www.swargarohan.org /Upanishad/main.htm (499 words)

	Myswizard » The Upanishad
		The Upanishad (उपनिषद्, Upaniṣad) are part of the Hindu Shruti scriptures which primarily discuss meditation and philosophy and are seen as religious instructions by most schools of Hinduism.
		The longest Upanishad are the Bŗhadāraṇyaka and the Chhāndogya.
		Of the early Upanishads, the Aitareya and Kauṣītāki belong to the Rig Veda, Kena and Chhāndogya to the Samaveda, Īṣa and Taittirīya and Bŗhadāraṇyaka to the Yajurveda, and Praṣna and Muṇd.aka to the Atharvaveda.
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	Atanu Dey -- UPANISHAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Upanishads are spiritual treatises of different lengths, the oldest of which were composed between 800 and 400 before the common era (BCE).
		The Sanskrit word Upanishad, (Upa-ni-shad) would mean a sitting, an instruction, the sitting at the feet of a master.
		The spirit of the Upanishads is the Spirit of the Universe.
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	Upanishads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Upanishads are a part of the trilogy of scriptures which Vedanta (a school of Hinduism) is based on.
		This Upanishad also claims that what our eyes cannot see, our ears cannot hear, our nose cannot smell, or our mouth cannot taste, etc., namely what exists behind our five senses and uses them is our real self, and that this self is both transcendental and immanent, and is never born or dies.
		Mandukya Upanishad deals with three philosophical problems; the nature of consciousness, the nature of subjective and objective experience, and the nature of causality, mainly from the point of view of the Vedantic concept of the "three bodies".
	www.dircon.co.uk /creativity/guhen/upani.htm (369 words)

	Taittiriya Upanishad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Taittiriya Upanishad is one of the older, "primary" Upanishads commented upon by Shankara.
		It is a Mukhya Upanishad, associated with the Taittiriya school of the Black Yajurveda.
		It figures as number 7 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taittiriya_Upanishad (133 words)

	Introduction to Katha Upanishad
		All Upanishads are written in Sanskrit, and the commentary by Acharya Shankara is taken as the most authentic.
		Upanishads are based on the dialogue between a realized soul acting as the Teacher, Rishi, and a sincere seeker of Truth who approaches Him as a disciple.
		In Katha Upanishad the teacher is Yama - The Death Himself - and the student is a young Nachiketa in his teens.
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	Upanishads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"We have to remember that the highest religion of the Upanishads, which insists on meditation and morality and worship of God in spirit and in truth, is not encumbered by such traditional dogmas and miracles as still hang upon the skirts of other religions.
		List of the 108 important Upanishads are arranged systematically according to the Veda each belongs.
		Translation of principal Upanishads by Sanderson Beck, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Nikhilananda.
	www.hinduwebsite.com /upaindex.htm (517 words)

	Upanishad
		The term Upanishad is derived from upa (near), ni (down) and s(h)ad (to sit).
		Upanishad means brahma-knowledge by which ignorance is loosened or destroyed.
		The Upanishads constitute what we call the Vedanta (Veda-anta), the end of the Vedas, not merely because they constitute the last part of them, but above all because they are their ultimate teachings, reaching to the highest metaphysical state.
	www.gatewayforindia.com /upanishad/upanishads.htm (164 words)

	Kena Upanishad
		Like the Isavasya, this Upanishad derives its name from the opening word of the text, Kena–ishitam, “by whom directed.” It is also known as the Talavakara Upanishad because of its place as a chapter in the Talavakara–Brahmana of the Sama–Veda.
		Among the Upanishads it is one of the most analytical and metaphysical, its purpose being to lead the mind from the gross to the subtle, from effect to cause.
		All is the Brahman (Supreme Lord) of the Upanishads.
	www.yoga-age.com /upanishads/kena.html (3245 words)

	beauty of god realization upanishad @ Amritapuri.org
		Maybe it was just a joke, but for those who have studied the Upanishads, Amma's words had a haunting ring to them.
		Being the only one in the cotton field falling into neither the category of "those who know" nor of "those who don't know," Amma alone was truly fit to speak on the subject.
		Upanishads don’t only take place in the Himalayas in the ancient past, but anytime a seeker of Truth comes to a Spiritual Master with an earnest desire to know Reality.
	www.amritapuri.org /amma/2006/602knownot.php (952 words)

	Realization.org: Taittiriya Upanishad translated by Alladi Mahadeva Sastry
		As the doctrine of the Kosas is the pivotal doctrine of the Vedanta on its theoretical as well as its practical side, students of the Vedanta should be thoroughly familiar with it before proceeding further in their studies.
		Though in interpreting the original text of the Upanishad Sayana differs slightly here and there from Sankaracharya, he follows the great teacher very closely on all points of doctrine, and quotes profusely from the writings of the two great leaders of the school.
		In fact, Sayana's Introduction to the study of the Upanishads is, as its readers are aware, made up of long extracts from the Vartikasara, a lucid digest of Suresvaracharya's Vartika on the Brihadaranyaka-Upanishad.
	www.realization.org /page/namedoc0/tu/tu_0_2.htm (751 words)

	The New Upanishad: Structure and Cognition of the Absolute
		The "Upanishads" (which means "insights" in Sanskrit) are short philosophic-religious treatises of Indian origin, in which different authors expressed their ideas about the essence of Divinity and the religious path of spiritual seekers.
		Today, only 108 Upanishads remain, while only 13 of them are the best known [15].
		If one studies ancient Upanishads, one will be able to notice a different levels of competence of their authors: some of them had really high spiritual achievements, while others were simply engaging in philosophical speculations, "playing with words", and fantasizing.
	www.swami-center.org /en/text/New_Upanishad.html (6272 words)

	Isha Upanishad
		The general teaching of the Upanishads is that works alone, even the highest, can bring only temporary happiness and must inevitably bind a man unless through them he gains knowledge of his real Self.
		Those who hold themselves under the sway of ignorance, who serve the flesh and neglect the Atman or the real Self, are not able to perceive the effulgent and indestructible nature of their Soul; hence they fall into the realm where the Soul light does not shine.
		This particular Upanishad deals chiefly with the Invisible Cause and the visible manifestation, and the whole trend of its teaching is to show that they are one and the same, one being the outcome of the other hence no perfect knowledge is possible without simultaneous comprehension of both.
	www.yoga-age.com /upanishads/isha.html (2224 words)

	VI. Prasña-Upanishad
		THIS Upanishad is called the Prasña or Shat-prasña-upanishad, and at the end of a chapter we find occasionally iti prasñaprativakanam, i.e.
		Pippalâda is mentioned in the Upanishad as the name of the principal teacher.
		” Mantropanishad is a name used of several Upanishads which are written in verse, and some of which, like the Isi, have kept their place in the Samhitâs.
	www.infoplease.com /t/rel/upanishads/intro2-6.html (269 words)

	The Taittiriya Upanishad
		A developed emanationist metaphysical system is found in the Taittiriya Upanishad, which shows obvious traces of influence from the slightly earlier and less systemmatic Chandogya Upanishad.
		The Taittiriya Upanishad is exceptional in that it is one of the first writings to present a systemmatic metaphysic or theory of first principles.
		The Taittiriya Upanishad presents a very world-affirming philosophy, because each level of self is described in a positive way, and Brahman itself is referred to emphatically as the nature of Bliss (Ananda).
	www.kheper.net /topics/Upanishads/Taittiriya.htm (748 words)

	Mandukya Upanishad
		The first chapter of Mandukya Upanishad discusses Turiya by means of the Vedic symbol AUM.
		The first verse of the Upanishad states that AUM is everything- past, present, and future, and what is beyond time.
		Vaisvanara Atman, whose sphere of activity is the waking state, is A, the first letter (of AUM), on account of his all-pervasiveness or on account of his being the first.
	www.beezone.com /Ramana/mandukya_upanishad.html (3215 words)

	Ramanuja [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In accordance with the Upanishads, the various schools of Vedanta hold that there is an ultimate entity, called Brahman, which also is referred to by scripture as "Atma" (“Self”).
		In accordance with much of the monism of Upanishadic passages, Ramanuja maintains that there is a way in which the individual self (jiva, or jivatma) is identical with the Ultimate Self (Atma or Paramatma).
		It is for this reason that the shruti [scripture] says, `Brahman is bliss' (Taittitriya Upanishad II.6.) Since the form of cognition as joy is determined by its object, Brahman itself is joy.
	www.iep.utm.edu /r/ramanuja.htm (7956 words)

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		The fable of the meaning of the Thunder is found in the Brihadaranyaka-Upanishad, 5, 1.
		A translation is found in Deussen's Sechzig Upanishads...
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	The Upanishads, Vol I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Upanishads were translated from Sanskrit into Persian by, or, it may be, for Dârâ Shukoh, the eldest son of Shâh Jehân, an enlightened prince, who openly professed the liberal religious tenets of the great Emperor Akbar, and even wrote a book intended to reconcile the religious doctrines of Hindus and Mohammedans.
		All the difficulties which occur in the Upanishads occur here, and no critical student who knows the difficulties that have to be encountered in determining the relative age of the four Gospels, will feel inclined, in the present state of Vedic scholarship, to speak with confidence on the relative age of the ancient Upanishads.
		Some questions connected with the metres of the Upanishads have been very learnedly treated by Professor Gildemeister in his essalv, 'Zur Theorie des Sloka.' The lesson to be derived from that essay, and from a study of the Upanishads, is certainly to abstain for the present from conjectural emendations.
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