Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

The "IAST|Bṛhadāraṇyaka" Upanishad (Sanskrit: बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद्) is one of the older, "primary" ("mukhya") Upanishads. It is contained within the Shatapatha Brahmana, and its status as an independent Upanishad may be considered a secondary extraction of a portion of the Brahmana text. This makes it one of the old (if not the oldest) texts of the Upanishad corpus, dating to roughly the 8th to 7th centuries BCE. It is associated with the Shukla Yajurveda. It figures as number 10 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads and was notably commented upon by Adi Shankara.

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It is widely known for its philosophical statements, and is ascribed to Yajnavalkya. Its name is literally translated as "great-forest-teaching". ["Aranyaka" can be translated as "forest" or "wilderness" but it also refers to a type of Vedic literature associated with sacrifices. Cf. "Aranyaka"."] It includes three sections, namely, "Madhu Kanda", "Muni Kanda" (or "Yajnavalkya Kanda") and "Khila Kanda". The Madhu Kanda explains the teachings of the basic identity of the individual or "jiva" and the Atman. Muni Kanda includes the conversations between the sage Yajnavalkya and his wife, Maitreyi. Various methods of worship and meditation are dealt in the Khila Kanda. The doctrine of "neti neti" ("neither this, nor that") and a often quoted verse, "Asato Maa" is found in this Upanishad.

Popular Shlokas

असतो मा सद्गमयतमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमयमृत्योर् मा अमृतं गमयॐ शांति शांति शांति - बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद् 1.3.28.

Transliteration:Asato Ma Sat GamayaTamaso Ma Jyotir GamayaMrityor Ma Amritam GamayaOm Shanti Shanti Shanti.

Translation:Lead Us From the Unreal To Real,Lead Us From Darkness To Light,Lead Us From Death To Immortality,
Aum (the universal sound of God)Let There Be Peace Peace Peace. - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28.

Editions

*Albrecht Weber, "The IAST|Çatapatha-Brāhmaṇa in the Mādhyandina-Çākhā, with extracts from the commentaries of IAST|Sāyaṇa, Harisvāmin and Dvivedānga", Berlin 1849, reprint Chowkhamba Sanskrit Ser., 96, Varanasi 1964.
*Willem Caland, "The IAST|Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa in the IAST|Kāṇvīya Recension", rev. ed. by Raghu Vira, Lahore 1926, repr. Delhi (1983)
* Emile Senart , "Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad", Belles Lettres (1967) ISBN 2-251-35301-1
* [http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/etcs/ind/aind/ved/yvw/upanisad/bau/bau.htm TITUS online edition] (based on both Weber and Caland)

Translations

* Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East (1879) [http://hinduwebsite.com/sacredscripts/brihad_max1.htm]
*R. E. Hume (1921) [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15098.htm]
* P. Lal, (1974) ISBN 81-7595-400-0
* Swami Nikhilananda (1987) ISBN 0-911206-14-0 [http://sanatan.intnet.mu/upanishads/brihadaranyaka.htm]
* Swami Madhavananda, Advaita Ashrama, 1934, 4th edition 2004 [http://www.vedanta.com/showbook.cfm?booknum=10000149&CFID=415012&CFTOKEN=38448499]

In Literature

Poet T. S. Eliot makes use of the story "The Voice of the Thunder", found in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Sections of the story appear in his poem "The Waste Land" under part V What The Thunder Said.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil/1_sanskr/1_veda/4_upa/brup___u.htm GRETIL etext]


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