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  Yajnavalkya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yajnavalkya worshipped and extolled the Sun, the master of the Vedas, for the purpose of acquiring the fresh Vedic portions not known to his preceptor, Vaishampayana.
Yajnavalkya replied that there was no hope of immortality through wealth and that she would only become one among the many who were well-to-do on earth.
Then Yajnavalkya elaborately described to her the sole greatness of the Absolute Self, the nature of Its existence, the way of attaining infinite knowledge and immortality, etc. This immortal conversation between Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi is recorded in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.
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 Aditya's Grace, the Great Gift   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yajnavalkya progressed steadily stage by stage on the path of his penance.
One morning as usual Yajnavalkya was absorbed in meditation and in japa of Surya-mantra.
Yajnavalkya realized that the divine horse standing before him was no other than Sun god himself.
www.freeindia.org /biographies/sages/yajnavalkya/page12.htm   (550 words)

  
 Yajnavalkya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Yajnavalkya cycle in the Brhad Aranyaka Upanisad.(Critical Essay)
BAU 4.3-4, which is associated with Yajnavalkya, the brahmistha of brahmins, and which...
Yajnavalkya Smriti,: With the commentary of Vijnanesvara, called the Mitaksara and notes from the gloss of Bâlambhatta.
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 Yajnavalkya Upanishad
Yajnavalkya said: Having completed the stage of a celibate student one may become a house-holder.
Yajnavalkya replied: This alone is his sacred thread (the conviction), ‘That (Self-effulgent) Atman (I am)’.
There are the well known sages called Paramahamsas (as in the days of yore, the sages) Samvartaka, Aruni, Svetaketu, Durvasas, Ribhu, Nidagha, Dattatreya, Suka, Vamadeva, Harita and others, wearing no distinguishing marks, with conduct beyond the ken (of worldly people) and who behaved as though bereft of their senses though (perfectly) sane.
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 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad - Continued   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yajnavalkya said: "Tha entity (purusha), after enjoying himself and raoming in the dream state and merely witnessing the results of good and evil, remians in a state of profound sleep and then hastens back in the reverse way to his former condition, the dream state.
"Yajnavalkya said: "That entity (purusha), after enjoying himself and roaming in the dream state and merely witnessing the results of good and evil, hastens back in the reverse way to his former condition, the waking state.
Yajnavalkya said: "That entity (purusha), after enjoying himself and roaming in the waking state and merely witnessing the results of good and evil, hastens back in the reverse way to its former condition, the dream state or that of dreamless sleep.
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 Yajnavalkya
Yajnavalkya is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Taught the monistic Adwaithic doctrine of the identity of Atma and Brahman in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.
Yajnavalkya Upanishad: (Sanskrit) A metrical rendering of the Jabala Upanishad, which expounds on sannyasa, renunciation of worldly life in the quest for liberation.
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 Yajnavalkya Smriti
Yajnavalkya Smriti is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Yajnavalkya Smriti: (Sanskrit) A Hindu code of law, one of the Dharma Shastras, regarded second in authority only to the earlier Manu Dharma Shastras.
Yajnavalkya Smriti: The Hindu Law-Givers in the Hindu Scriptures
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 Chancellor Yajnavalkya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Accordingly Yajnavalkya was made the chancellor of the gurukula run by Uddalaka.
The enlightening lectures and discourses on Vedic studies delivered by Yajnavalkya, out of his profound and divine scholarship, proved an illumination of great fortune to the students.
Yajnavalkya explained the Vedic mantras wherever it was necessary.
www.freeindia.org /biographies/sages/yajnavalkya/page14.htm   (324 words)

  
 The Vedic Quest Concerning the Universe, Space and Time by Dr. Rati Saxena   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She said — “O Yajnavalkya, of which they say, it is above the heaven, it is beneath the earth, that which is between these two, The heaven and the earth, that which the people call the past, the present and the future, across what is that woven like warp and woof?”
Yajnavalkya says: “Above the dyow and under the earth, between the earth and dyow, what is called bhuta, bhavishya or vartaman, is otaprota with akash.
Yajnavalkya says that Brahma is the one who is inside akash, but akash does not know him.
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 Sage Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad by Swami Krishnananda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sage Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad by Swami Krishnananda
The everywhereness of God implies that there is space, and inasmuch as our mind is wedded completely to the concept of spatial expansion, we feel a little bit comforted when we are told that God is everywhere.
Yajnavalkya said "Hey, don't ask too much lest your head may fall off." "Tell me the great Purusha that is declared in the Upanishads.
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 Sage Yajnavalkya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yajnavalkya was the son of the sister of Mahamuni Vaishampayana, the Vedacharya of the Taittiriya section.
Yajnavalkya said, "Prostration to the glorious Aditya, who in the form of the Atman, abides in all beings.
When Yajnavalkya wished to divide his property between the two wives before starting for the fourth Ashrama of his life, Maitreyi asked whether she could become immortal through wealth.
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 Gargi
One of the implications of Yajnavalkya’s statement, is that instead of conceding defeat in the debate, he was trying to dissuade Gargi from going into the construction of the belief system itself.
Self-castration is also suggested as Yajnavalkya practices that which is antithetical to spiritual learning, a rigid hierarchy with brahmins at the top, at the expense of the spiritually oppressed and dispossessed.
She is told by Yajnavalkya, "if you ask too many questions, your head will burst!" We can take Yajnavalkya to mean that Gargi may go insane from her own questioning; however, we must also consider the social and psychological oppression she faces as a woman in a gendered society.
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 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
III-i-3: ‘Yajnavalkya’, said he, ‘since all this is overtaken by death, and swayed by it, by what means does the sacrificer go beyond the clutches of death ?’ ‘Through the organ of speech – through fire, which is the (real) priest called Hotr.
III-i-5: ‘Yajnavalkya’, said he, ‘since all this is overtaken by the bright and dark fortnights, and swayed by them, by what means does the sacrificer go beyond the bright and dark fortnights /’ ‘Through the vital force – through air, which is the (real) priest called Udgatir.
IV-iii-2: ‘Yajnavalkya, what serves as the light for a man ?’ ‘The light of the sun, O Emperor’, said Yajnavalkya; ‘it is through the light of the sun that he sits, goes out, works and returns’.
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 The Smritis
Manu Smriti and Yajnavalkya Smriti are universally accepted at the present time as authoritative works all over India.
Yajnavalkya Smriti is chiefly consulted in all matters of Hindu Law.
The laws of Manu are intended for the Satya Yuga; those of Yajnavalkya are for the Treta Yuga; those of Sankha and Likhita are for the Dvapara Yuga; and those of Parasara are for the Kali Yuga.
www.sivanandadlshq.org /religions/smritis.htm   (856 words)

  
 Talk:Yajnavalkya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I think it will be fine if he is taken out of the list of mathematicians.
600 B.C. My source work on philosophy gives the date of Yajnavalkya as "About 600 B.C.", that is quite a difference from what it stands as currently.
I know Indian philosophical movements tend to push the dates of their founders back quite a bit unnecessarily.
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 MantraOnNet.com: Brhadaranyaka Upanishad
'Yajnavalkya,' he said, 'we were living among the Madras, in the house of Patancala Kapya, studying the sacrifice.
She said, 'Yajnavalkya, as a warrior son of KSiSi or Videha might string his unstrung bow, take in his hand two enemy-piercing arrows, and advance against you, so I have advanced against you, with two questions.
She said, 'Yajnavalkya, that which is above the sky; that which is below the earth; that which is between sky and earth; that which they call past, present and future: on what is that woven, as warp and weft?'
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 MantraOnNet.com: Brhadaranyaka Upanishad
Yajnavalkya said, 'My father used to say that one should not accept gifts without having taught.
Janaka of Videha came quietly down from his throne and said, 'Homage to you, Yajnavalkya: teach me!' He said, 'Your majesty, as one about to go on a great voyage would get hold of a chariot or a ship, so you have a self well prepared by these inner teachings (Upanishad).
Yajnavalkya went to Janaka of Videha, intending not to teach.
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 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Yajnavalkya replied, ‘My father was of opinion that one should not accept (wealth) from a disciple without fully instructing him’.
‘What is stability, Yajnavalkya ?’ ‘The heart itself, O Emperor’, said Yajnavalkya; ‘the heart, O Emperor, is the abode of all beings, and the heart, O Emperor, is the support of all beings; on the heart, O Emperor, all beings rest; the heart, O Emperor, is the Supreme Brahman.
Yajnavalkya replied, ‘As one wishing to go a long distance, O Emperor, should secure a chariot or a boat, so have you fully equipped your mind with so many secret names (of Brahman).
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 BRAHMAN: THE SEARCH FOR THE GROUND OF THE UNIVERSE
In their quest for some ultimate ground for the world of natural phenomena, of time and space, and of human existence, the Upanishadic sages came to the conception of brahman, an undefinable, impersonal, unknowable power (brahman is not the same as Brahman, the priestly class).
Although in the preceding dialogues Gargi had been warned not to ask too many questions, lest her head fall off, she persisted, and was rewarded with answers to her questions.
She said: "That, O Yajnavalkya, which is above the sky, that which is beneath the earth, that which is between these two, sky and earth, that which people call the past and the present and the future - across what is that woven, warp and woof?"
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 An article containing excerpts from the first Indian New Age novel
Yajnavalkya had come to tell her about his decision to end his duties as a householder and to depart.
And after the temple had been destroyed by the flood, she knew somehow that a part of her life was over.
Even as Yajnavalkya fashioned the new idol from the rock she had given him, she felt herself being prepared.
www.lifepositive.com /Mind/arts/new-age-fiction/paralleljourneys.asp   (2865 words)

  
 Learn more about Yajnavalkya in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Learn more about Yajnavalkya in the online encyclopedia.
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
Yajnavalkya (perhaps 1800 BC) advanced a 95-year cycle to synchronize the motions of the sun and the moon.
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 Hindu scripture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dharmashastras (law books) are considered by many to form part of the smrti.
From time to time great law-givers (eg Manu, Yajnavalkya and Parashara) emerged, who codified existing laws and eliminated obsolete ones to ensure that the Hindu way of life was consistent with both the Vedic spirit and the changing times.
However, it must be noted that the Dharmashastras have long been discarded by many groups of Hindus, namely those following Vedanta, Bhakti, Yoga and Tantra streams of Hinduism.
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 The Supreme Goal
YAjnavalkya, >the famous r^shhi of the upanishhads asks one of his disciples to drive >the cows home implying that he (YAjnavalkya) has the perfect knowledge >of the Self.
The Upanishads may not accept anyone's claim to be a jnani unless perhaps one *is* a jnani as in the case of YAjnavalkya.
If you do not, then I suggest the rest of us interpret your silence as an honest admission that you are *not* the equal of these truly realized beings and we therefore consider your respective opinions accordingly.
www.advaita-vedanta.org /archives/advaita-l/1997-October/007849.html   (502 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Yajnavalkya
According to indian tradition, Yajnavalkya was the son of sage Devarata and was the pupil of sage vaishampayana who was taching yajurveda to several other students along with Yajnavalkya.
As per the demads of his Guru, Yajnavalkya vomitted all the knowledge that he aquired from his teacher in form of eaten food.
The prime Upanishad among the many Upanishads written in ancient India, known very widely for its profound philosophical statements.
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 SELECTIONS FROM
TO Janaka king of the Videhas came Yajnavalkya, determined not to speak openly with the king.
But when Janaka king of the Videhas and Yajnavalkya debated together at the offering of the holy fire, Yajnavalkya offered the king a wish.
And when he has taken his pleasure in dreamland, moving to and fro and beholding good and evil, the Spirit of man returns again by the same path, hurrying back to his former dwelling-place in the world of waking.
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 Hinduism Today | Jan/Feb 2001
Thereupon Maitreyi said, "Venerable Sir, if indeed the whole Earth, full of wealth, belonged to me, would I be immortal through that?" "No," replied Yajnavalkya, "your life would be just like that of people who have plenty.
Yajnavalkya replied: "My dear, you have been my beloved even before, and now you say what is after my heart.
Then Yajnavalkya said: "Verily, not for the sake of the husband, my dear, is the husband loved, but he is loved for the sake of the Self [which, in its true nature, is one with the Supreme Self.
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 The Yajnavalkya cycle in the Brhad Aranyaka Upanisad.(Critical Essay) : An article from: The Journal of the American ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Yajnavalkya cycle in the Brhad Aranyaka Upanisad.(Critical Essay) : An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on April 1, 2002.
This larger composition in turn may constitute a later expansion of Brereton's text, and recognizing this textual layering may make it possible to shed some light on a major difference in interpreting the concluding verses of BAU 3.
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 Hindu Scriptures
The Krishna or the Tattiriya is the older book and the Sukla or Vajasaneya is a later revelation to Sage Yajnavalkya from the resplendent Sun-God.
We have Manu Smriti or Manava Dharma-Sastra (Laws of Manu or the Institutes of Manu), Yajnavalkya Smriti and Parsara Smriti.
The Yajnavalkya Smriti follows the same general lines as the Manu Smriti and is next in importance to it.
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 HERE-NOW4U :Pungaliya :Yoga Philosophy of Jnaneshvara and Patanjali
We get references of Astanga Yoga in a number of Upanishads such as Chandogya Upanishad, Sandilya Upanishad etc. Yajnavalkya explains this Yoga Philosophy to Gargi and other disciples exactly on the same lines as Patanjali does.
(2) Yajnavalkya further states that this philosophy of Astanga Yoga was being learnt by him from his masters.
This is an indication of the fact that the philosophy of Astanga Yoga is very ancient and was already in practice before Patanjali.
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