Īśā Upanishad
Eighteen verses appended to the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā of the Śukla Yajurveda — the shortest of the principal Upanishads and the only one embedded in a Saṃhitā itself. Opens īśāvāsyam idaṃ sarvam: "all this is enveloped by the Lord."
Source context· Indian stream · Ancient Indian cultural impulse
- Stream
- Indian
- Cultural impulse
- Ancient Indian (1st post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 500 BCE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Îsâ-Upanishad (Vâgasaneyi-Samhitâ)
Non-dual unity of Ātman and Brahman; renunciation as the ground of right action and immortality
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