Śvetāśvatara Upanishad
Six adhyāyas. The most theistically inflected of the principal Upanishads — names the supreme as Rudra/Śiva and prefigures later devotional theism. Opens with the four causes (kāraṇāni) discussion.
Source context· Indian stream · Ancient Indian cultural impulse
- Stream
- Indian
- Cultural impulse
- Ancient Indian (1st post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 300 BCE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Svetâsvatara-Upanishad
Divine self-disclosure through Brahman, the one God beyond qualities, as source and ground of cosmos and soul
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