Kena Upanishad
A short Upanishad from the Talavakāra (Jaiminīya) school of the Sāmaveda. Asks: kena — "by whom" is the mind sent, the breath impelled, the eye moved? Answers: by Brahman, the unknowable knower behind all knowing.
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
- 1Talavakâra-Upanishad (Kena)
The hidden ground of cognition — That which impels the mind, eye, ear, and speech yet cannot itself be known by those faculties
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