Author: Swami Sivananda
Publisher: Divine Life Society
Year: 2002
Language: multilingual
Pages: 574
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is a veritable research reservoir and may be taken for intensive study by those who are pure in heart, sincere in their aspirations, and wholly devoted to a godly life.
The holy corpus of the Veda, which is the repository of eternal knowledge and wisdom, is divided into four books known as Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda. In each of these four Vedas a distinction has been made according to contents and form: Samhita; Brahmana; Aranyakja; and Upanishad.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad belongs to the Shukla-Yajurveda group and is the most elaborate of them all, touching on almost every issue relevant to human life, and rising to such heights of philosophic genius as may rightly be considered as the greatest achievement of the human mind in history.,
It is sometimes held that the Brihadaranyaka is a vast commentary on the suggestions made in the Isa Upanishad, while the Brihadaranyaka has a certain internal connection with the precise adoration of the Almighty sung in the Purusha-Sukta of the Samhita.