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    The Katha Upanishad (Sanskrit: कठोपनिषद्, IAST: Kaṭhopaniṣad), is an ancient Hindu text and one of the mukhya (primary) Upanishads, embedded in the last...
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    Isha Upanishad, the Taittiriya Upanishad, the Katha Upanishad, the Shvetashvatara Upanishad and the Maitri Upanishad. Two of the oldest surviving manuscript...
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    Om (section Katha Upanishad)
    Sixty Upanishads of the Veda, Volume 1, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120814684, pages 269-273 Max Muller (1962), Katha Upanishad, in The Upanishads – Part...
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  • according to whatever He enters and is outside all forms. — Katha Upanishad, 2.2.9 Katha Upanishad, in Book 1, hymns 3.3-3.4, describes the widely cited proto-Samkhya...
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    spirit." Adi Shankaracharya explains in his commentary on the Kaṭha and Brihadaranyaka Upanishad that the word means Ātmavidyā, that is, "knowledge of the...
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  • Pancha Shanti mantras, are Hindu prayers for peace (shanti) found in the Upanishads. Generally, they are recited at the beginning and end of religious rituals...
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    the nature of the atman (soul). His allegorical story is told in the Katha Upanishad, though the name has several earlier references. He was taught self-knowledge...
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    (non-dualism) sub-schools of Vedanta. It is classified as a "poetic Upanishad" along with Kena, Katha, Svetasvatara and Mundaka by Paul Deussen (1908). The root...
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    Yoga (section Upanishads)
    Taittiriya Upanishad defines yoga as the mastery of body and senses. According to Flood, "[T]he actual term yoga first appears in the Katha Upanishad, dated...
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    philosopher Swami Vivekananda, who took inspiration in a sloka of Katha Upanishad. It was his message to the world to get out of their hypnotized state...
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  • fortune. The novel's title comes from a translation of a verse in the Katha Upanishad, paraphrased in the book's epigraph as: "The sharp edge of a razor...
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  • Essence of the Upanishads is a translation and commentary on the Katha Upanishad, an ancient Indian scripture. Written by Eknath Easwaran, the book was...
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  • millennium BCE Indian texts such as the Katha Upanishad, the Shvetashvatara Upanishad and the Maitri Upanishad. The root of the word "Yoga" is found in...
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  • all of the Principal Upanishads around the 1600s. The ten Principal Upanishads are: Īśā (IsUp), Yajurveda Kena (KeUp), Samaveda Kaṭha (KaUp), Yajurveda Praśna...
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    Hinduism. It is one of the oldest Upanishads. It lists as number 9 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads. The Upanishad belongs to the Tandya school of...
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  • man who is himself blind. — Katha Upanishad, Verse 2.5 Mundaka Upanishad references avidya similar to the Katha Upanishad verse 2.5: Wallowing in ignorance...
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  • the Upanishads. Surendranath Dasgupta stated in 1922 that Samkhya can be traced to Upanishads such as Katha Upanishad, Shvetashvatara Upanishad and Maitrayaniya...
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    and Katha Upanishads. For example, the allegory of "blind leading the blind" in section 1.2 of Mundaka Upanishad is also found in section 1.2 of Katha Upanishad...
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  • center of the district Katha (storytelling format), an Indian style of religious storytelling Katha Upanishad, a Hindu sacred text Katha (unit), a unit of...
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    the Taittiriya and Katha Aranyakas it exclusively deals with the Parvargya ritual, and is followed by the Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad (Satapatha Br. 14.4–9)...
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    places Shvetashvatara Upanishad's chronological composition in the fourth group of ancient Upanishads, after Katha and Mundaka Upanishads. Deussen states that...
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    Yama (section Upanishads)
    Śrauta state that Yama has golden-eyed and iron-hoofed horses. In the Katha Upanishad, Yama is portrayed as a teacher to the Brahmin boy Nachiketa. Having...
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    dates Kena Upanishad as having been composed after Brihadaranyaka, Chandogya, Isha, Taittiriya and Aitareya (pre-6th century BCE), but before Katha, Mundaka...
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    Devi translated the Shanti Parva of the Mahabharata and Katha Upanishad. The Katha Upanishad is currently kept at the Visva-Bharati University. Besides...
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    of objects and life, appears in verse 1.2.10 of the Katha Upanishad, one of the Principal Upanishads of Hinduism. It asserts that everything in the world...
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  • same Aruni, in his commentaries on the Upanishads. The theme discussed in the dialogues of the Katha Upanishad is also Atman and Brahman. Paul Deussen...
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    Varuna (section Upanishads)
    and dependent ultimately on "the heart" and the fire of soul. In the Katha Upanishad, Aditi is identified to be same as the goddess earth. She is stated...
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    Upanishad (Sanskrit: मैत्री उपनिषद्, Maitrī Upaniṣad), and is listed as number 24 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads. The Maitrayaniya Upanishad is...
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    Principal Upanishads such as in verse 1.3.7 of the Katha Upanishad, verse 6.16 of the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, verses 1.4 and 6.34 of the Maitri Upanishad. The...
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  • found in Taittiriya Upanishad, Aitareya Upanishad and Yajnavalkya–Maitri dialogue in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. The Katha Upanishad in verses 3.10–13...
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