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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Hinduism. It is one of the oldest Upanishads. In the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads, it is listed as the ninth. The Upanishad belongs to the Tandya school...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Aranyaka (redirect from Katha Aranyaka)
    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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    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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    Brahman (section Upanishads)
    wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/katha-upanishad-shankara-bhashya/d/doc145249.html [www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/chandogya-upanishad-english/d/doc239480.html...
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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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    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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    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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  • 000-year-old Chandogya Upanishad, but many other Upanishads use the concept, including the Katha, Mundaka and Prasna Upanishads. The concept is elaborated...
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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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    The Mandukya Upanishad (Sanskrit: माण्डूक्योपनिषद्, IAST: Māṇḍūkyopaniṣad) is the shortest of all the Upanishads, and is assigned to Atharvaveda. It is...
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