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Upanishad

one of a class of speculative treatises in Sanskrit literature, 1805, from Sanskrit upa-nishad, literally "a sitting down beside." From upa "near to" (see up (adv.)) + ni-shad "to sit or lie down," from ni "downward" (from PIE *ni-, see nether) + -sad "sitting," From PIE *sed- (1) "to sit" (see sedentary).

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As again declared in the Upanishad: "We know not, we understand not, how It should be taught.

Next, with U, where the sound mass, moving forward, fills the whole head as it were, the Upanishad associates dream consciousness.

Next, M, third element of the syllable, where the intonation of this holy sound terminates forward, at the closed lips, the Upanishad associates with deep dreamless sleep.

The Upanishads and the Gita are loud with and full of the idea of going beyond morality.

For instance, when the Upanishad says : "he does not need to think whether what he is doing is good or bad"—Sadhu, Asadhu.

Among the Upanishads only the Taittiriya has some general idea of the higher terms.

But the stages that you find in the Vedas and in the Upanishads after the Mind is left behind, all become lost.

The Upanishads have not been rivalled since because of their "calm strength".

This story from the Upanishads that we have just read -- "I see that I am this creation," says the god.

You quote those lines from the Upanishads: "Thou art the dark blue bird, and the green parrot with red eyes.

And there in that Upanishad she appears as the teacher of the Vedic gods themselves concerning the ultimate ground and source of their own powers and being.

There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads: "When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

There is an image in the Upanishads of the original, concentrated energy which was the big bang of creation that set forth the world, consigning all things to the fragmentation of time.