By the elimination of all differences due to limiting adjuncts, the words Not This, Not This refer to some thing which has no distinguishing mark such as name, or form, or action, or heterogeneity, or species, or qualities. 'NOT THIS, NOT THIS': Brahman does not possess any distinguishing marks which can be described by words. The description of Brahman: ' Not this, not this' (Neti, Neti) for there is no other and more appropriate description than this 'Not this.' Now the designation of Brahman: ' The Truth of truth.' The vital breath is truth and It (Brahman) is the Truth of that. He who knows this-his splendour is like a flash of lightning. The form of that person is like a cloth dyed with turmeric, or like grey sheep's wool, or like the scarlet insect called Indragopa, or like a tongue of fire, or like a white lotus, or like a flash of lightning. 'Its secret name (Upanishad) is Satyasya Satyam, ' the Truth of truth.' The instructions regarding Brahman were often given in short formulas also known as Upanishads. Brahman is Sat-Chit-Ananda in many different forms and God the formless (Existence, Consciousness and Bliss).īrahman is the Universal Spirit the Ultimate Reality, Pure Consciousness the One existence the Absolute 'the unchanging reality amidst and beyond the world', which 'cannot be exactly defined'.

The Sanskrit name for God is Sat-Chit-Ananda = Sat (Existence), Chit (Consciousness), Ananda (Bliss). brih - 'to grow, to expand' also 'the greatest') is God. They express the same truth as the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras.īrahman (lit. The Upanishads deal the disciplines of philosophical knowledge (jnana), divine love (bhakti), action (karma), and yoga. They have elucidated the most important questions of human existence: The Upanishads most of all are the record of what the sages and seers perceived in thought and visions and are not an organized systems of philosophy. Of the 108 Upanishads that have been preserved 12 are considered the principle Upanishads. Vedas ( vid - 'to know', 'knowledge' of the eternal truth). Vedanta ( anta 'the end' or 'last portion') is the essence and culmination of all the knowledge within the Vedas. Loosens the bonds of samsara ('wandaring', 'change', a journey of the soul) Makes you realise you are Brahman (take you closer to Brahman)Ģ.

Term Upanishad derives from upa- (' nearby'), ni- (' at the proper place, down') and sad (' to sit') and it means 'sitting near a teacher to receive the sacred teachings'.ġ. The Upanishads contain revealed truth ( Sruti) about Brahman (God), the Ultimate Reality and the way of salvation ( Moksha). The Upanishads are part of Vedanta or the last part of the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism created between 1500–1000 BCE.

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