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The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
by Swami Krishnananda
 

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

 

 
Table of Contents
Invocatory Prayer and Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER I  
Brahmanas
1. The Universe as a Sacrificial Horse
2. The Creation of the Universe
3. The Superiority of the Vital Force Among All Functions
4. Creation from the Universal Self
5. Prajapati's Production of the World as Food for Himself
CHAPTER II  
Brahmanas
4. The Conversation of Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi on the Absolute Self
5. Madhu-Vidya: The Honey Doctrine
6. The Line of Teachers and Pupils
CHAPTER III  
Brahmanas
1. Sacrificial Worship and its Rewards
2. The Man in Bondage and His Future at Death
3. The Resort of the Performers of the Horse Sacrifice
4. The Unknowability of Brahman
5. Renunciation, the Way to Know Brahman
6. Brahman, the Universal Ground
7. The Nature of the Inner Controller
8. The Unqualified Brahman
9. Many Gods and One Brahman
  Eight Different Persons and their Corresponding Deities
Five Directions in Space, Their Deities and Supports
The Self
Man Compared to a Tree
CHAPTER IV  
Brahmanas
1. Inadequate Definitions of Brahman
2. Concerning the Soul
3. The Light of Man is the Self
The Different States of the Self
The Self in Dream and Deep Sleep
The Self at Death
4. The Soul of the Unrealised after Death
5. The Supreme Self and the Supreme Love
CHAPTER V  
Brahmanas
1. Brahman, the Inexhaustible
2. The Three Principal Virtues
3. Brahman as the Heart
4. Brahman as the True or the Real
5. The Real Explained
6. The Divine Person
7. Brahman as Lightning
8. The Veda Symbolised as a Cow
9. The Universal Fire
10. The Course after Death
11. The Supreme Austerities
12. The Via Media of Attitude
13. Meditation on the Life-Breath
14. The Sacred Gayatri Prayer
15. Prayer to the Sun by a Dying Person
CHAPTER I (Continued)  
Brahmanas
5. (Cont.) The Threefold Creation
The Self Identified with the Sixteenfold Prajapati, the Time Spirit
The Three Worlds and the Means of Winning Them
A Father's Benediction and Transmission of Charge
The Unfailing Vital Force
6. The Threefold Character of the Universe
CHAPTER II (Continued)  
Brahmanas
1. A Progressive Definition of Brahman
2. The Vital Force Embodied in a Person
3. The Two Forms of Reality

RECAPITULATION  
Chapters
1. The Absolute and the Universe
2. The Supreme Goal of Life
3. Divine Immanence and the Correlativity of all Things
4. The Inner Reality
5. The Principles of Meditation
6. The Spiritual and the Temporal
Conclusion  
NOTES
 
 
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