Upanishads
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The Upanishads are Sanskrit texts of the late Vedic and post-Vedic periods that "document the transition from the archaic ritualism of the Veda into new religious ideas and institutions" and the emerg
Guru and Disciple I
Yama teaches Nasiketha
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Vajrasuchi Upanishad sample i, Samaveda, Sanskrit, Devanagari script, 1728 CE manuscript
Brahman
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In the Vedic and Hindu religions, Brahman has a "variety of meanings", but in the Upanishads and later Indian philosophies it connotes 'That' from which all existence proceeds, and to which everything
Upanishads
…of all Upanishads is to discover the relations between ritual, cosmic realities (including gods), and the human body/person, postulating Ātman and Brahman as the "summit of the hierarchically arranged and interconnected universe", but various ideas about the relation between Atman and Brahman can be found…
A drop in the ocean: an analogy for Ātman merging into Brahman.
Deities Vishnu, Lakshmi, Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha. These deities have distinct and complex personalities, yet are often viewed as aspects of and are worshipped as incarnations of the same ultimate reality called Brahman.
Swan (Hansa, हंस) is the symbol for Brahman-Atman in Hindu iconography.
Vishnu