Maitrāyaṇa-Brāhmaṇa Upanishad
Also called Maitrī Upanishad. The latest of the twelve translated here — six prapāṭhakas synthesizing earlier Upanishadic themes with Sāṃkhya-Yoga vocabulary (guṇas, puruṣa, prakṛti) and introducing six-limbed yoga (ṣaḍaṅga-yoga).
Source context· Indian stream · Ancient Indian cultural impulse
- Stream
- Indian
- Cultural impulse
- Ancient Indian (1st post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 200 BCE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Maitrâyana-Brâhmana-Upanishad
Dissolution of individual selfhood into the universal Brahman through six-fold meditation on the inner fire-self (Maitri Upanishad's doctrine of the ātman as Brahman)
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