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The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
by Swami Krishnananda
 

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

 

 
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I  
Brahmanas
The Universe as a Sacrificial Horse
The Creation of the Universe
The Superiority of the Vital Force Among All Functions
Creation from the Universal Self
Prajapati's Production of the World as Food for Himself
CHAPTER II  
Brahmanas
The Conversation of Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi on the Absolute Self
Madhu-Vidya: The Honey Doctrine
The Line of Teachers and Pupils
CHAPTER III  
Brahmanas
Sacrificial Worship and its Rewards
The Man in Bondage and His Future at Death
The Resort of the Performers of the Horse Sacrifice
The Unknowability of Brahman
Renunciation, the Way to Know Brahman
Brahman, the Universal Ground
The Nature of the Inner Controller
The Unqualified Brahman
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
Inadequate Definitions of Brahman
Concerning the Soul
The Light of Man is the Self
The Different States of the Self
The Self in Dream and Deep Sleep
The Self at Death
The Soul of the Unrealised after Death
The Supreme Self and the Supreme Love
CHAPTER V  
Brahmanas
Brahman, the Inexhaustible
The Three Principal Virtues
Brahman as the Heart
Brahman as the True or the Real
The Real Explained
The Divine Person
Brahman as Lightning
The Veda Symbolised as a Cow
The Universal Fire
The Course after Death
The Supreme Austerities
The Via Media of Attitude
Meditation on the Life-Breath
The Sacred Gayatri Prayer
Prayer to the Sun by a Dying Person
CHAPTER I (Continued)  
Brahmanas
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
The Threefold Character of the Universe
CHAPTER II (Continued)  
Brahmanas
A Progressive Definition of Brahman
The Vital Force Embodied in a Person
The Two Forms of Reality

RECAPITULATION  
Chapters
The Absolute and the Universe
The Supreme Goal of Life
Divine Immanence and the Correlativity of all Things
The Inner Reality
The Principles of Meditation
The Spiritual and the Temporal
Conclusion  
NOTES
 
 
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