In that vast Brahma-wheel, in which all things live and rest, the bird flutters about, so long as he thinks that the self (in him) is different from the mover (the god, the lord). When he has been ...

Now, indeed, O king, this is the Brahma-knowledge, even the knowledge contained in all the Upanishads, as declared to us by the honorable Maitri. I will narrate it to you. Now, the Valakhilyas are ...

The dialogue between Varuna and Bhrigu, which lies at the heart of the Taittiriya Upanishad, is perhaps the earliest cosmological deconstruction of the concept of Brahmn. This succinct opening ...

The Upanishads are part of Vedanta or the last part of the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism created between 1500–1000 BCE. The Upanishads contain revealed truth (Sruti) about Brahman (God), ...

In the Chandogya Upanishad (c. 7th century BCE), Indra, king of the Vedic gods, and his nemesis, Virochana, king of the asuras (anti-gods), go to the temple of the creator god, Prajapati, to learn the ...

Long ago, in the forest-covered plains of western Kuru-Panchala, now known as Delhi-NCR, a book of lectures, stories and conversations was put together about the nature of the world and the proper ...

Philosophy East and West, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul., 2006), pp. 451-468 (18 pages) The philosophical import of the chariot images found in the Katha Upanishad and the Phaedrus is considered here. It is ...

Plato learnt from Socrates and gave the world The Republic. Arjuna learnt about courage and the greater good from Lord Krishna, so eloquently recorded in the Bhagavad ...

Times of India’s Edit Page team comprises senior journalists with wide-ranging interests who debate and opine on the news and issues of the day. By Pranav Khullar The notion of immanence circumscribes ...

A story is told about Kulasekara Azhwar’s abundant interest in the Ramayana. The ruler would often invite exponents to his Darbar. It is lore that he got so immersed in Rama’s exploits that he ordered ...