Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad
The longest and (with Chāndogya) the oldest of the principal Upanishads. Six adhyāyas including the Madhu-kāṇḍa ("honey doctrine"), the dialogue of Yājñavalkya and Maitreyī, the neti neti ("not this, not this") via negativa, and the king Janaka's court debates.
Source context· Indian stream · Ancient Indian cultural impulse
- Stream
- Indian
- Cultural impulse
- Ancient Indian (1st post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 700 BCE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Brihadâranyaka-Upanishad
Primordial self-inquiry, cosmogonic speech, and the identity of Ātman with Brahman in the forest teaching tradition
46,218 words
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