The Rig Vedic, Yajur Vedic and Atharva Vedic Upanishads like Aiteraya Upanishad, Taittiriya Upanishad, Swetaswatara Upanishad, Mundaka Upanishad etc.

The syllable is mentioned in all the Upanishads, specially elaborated upon in the Taittiriya, Chāndogya and Māndukya Upanishad set forth as the object of profound religious meditation, the highest spiritual efficacy being attributed not only to the whole word but also to the three sounds a ( a-kāra ), u ( u-kāra ), m ( ma-kāra ), of which it consists.

The enumeration of tattvas in Samkhya is also found in Taittiriya Upanishad, Aitareya Upanishad and Yajnavalkya – Maitri dialogue in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

Chapters 7, 8 and 9, are the three vallis of the well-known Taittiriya Upanishad.

Bhrigu Rishi had contributed to many Sanskrit Holy books like Rigved, Taittiriya Upanishad, Manusmriti, Bhrigu Samhita etc.

The Taittiriya Shakha consists of Taittiriya Samhita ( having seven kandas ), Taittiriya Brahmana ( having three kandas ), Taittiriya Aranyaka ( having seven prashnas ) ( See Aranyaka Literature ), Taittiriya Upanishad ( having three prashnas or vallis – Shiksha valli, Ananda valli and Bhrigu valli ) and the Mahanarayana Upanishad.

The Taittiriya Upanishad and Mahanarayana Upanishad are considered to be the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth prashnas of the Aranyaka.

Sri Aurobindo developed a very different concept of the mental plane, through his own synthesis of Vedanta ( including the Taittiriya Upanishad ), Tantra, Theosophy, and Max Théon ideas ( which he received via The Mother, who was Theon's student in occultism for two years ).

( Taittiriya Upanishad 2. 6. 1 )

( Example :) A brahmana named ' X ' introduces himself as follows: I am ' X ', of Shrivatsa gotra, of Āpastamba sutra, of Taittiriya shākha of Yajurveda, of five pravaras named Bhārgava, Chyāvana, Āpnavan, Aurva and Jāmdagnya ( This example is based upon the example given by Pattābhirām Shastri in the introduction to Vedārtha-Pārijata, cf.

Duties and responsibilities of the Hindu life has been classified into five great Yajnas or the Pancha Mahayajnas ( Taittiriya Aranyaka 2. 10 ).

In India in the seventh century b. c. e., the Taittiriya Upanishad referred to five levels of self, of which the middle one is the " self made of mind " ( manas ) Although the text is describing the nature of the individual rather than the cosmos as a whole, it established the concept of mind as only one of a series of ontological layers of being.

A ( late ) subset of them are the Pancha Mahayajnas ( Five Great Yajnas, see Taittiriya Aranyaka 2. 10 ):

The term ahimsa appears in the text Taittiriya Shakha of the Yajurveda ( TS 5. 2. 8. 7 ), where it refers to non-injury to the sacrificer himself.

In the Satapatha Brahmana ( v. 12, 3, 5 ), Savitr has been identified with Prajapati and in the Taittiriya Brahmana ( v. 1, 6, 4 ), it has been stated that Prajapati becoming Savitr created living beings.

In the Taittiriya Brahmana ( I. 6. 1. 4 ), Nirṛti is described as dark, dressed in dark clothes and her sacrificial shares are dark husks.

Mysticism and Symbolism in Aitareya and Taittiriya Aranyakas, South Asia Books ( 1989 ), ISBN 81-212-0094-6

This prefixing of the mantra proper is described in the Taittiriya Aranyaka ( 2. 11. 1-8 ), which states that scriptural recitation was always to begin with the chanting of the syllable, followed by the three Vyahrtis and the Gayatri verse.

This prefixing of the mantra proper is described in the Taittiriya Aranyaka ( 2. 11. 1-8 ), which states that scriptural recitation was always to begin with the chanting of the syllable, followed by the three Vyahrtis and the Gayatri verse.

The Taittiriya hymn speaks of Brahman as " one where the mind does not reach ".

** Taittiriya Samhita ( TS ).

* Kumar, Pushpendra, Taittiriya Brahmanam ( Krsnam Yajurveda ), 3 vols., Delhi ( 1998 ).

Its mantras and theological explanations in the Brahmana texts are first attested in the Yajurveda Samhitas ( Taittiriya, Kathaka ; Vajasaneyi ).

Sri Aurobindo developed a very different concept of the Mental Plane, through his own synthesis of Vedanta ( including the Taittiriya Upanishad ), Tantra, Theosophy, and Theon's ideas ( which he received via The Mother, who was Theon's student in occultism for two years ).

The Vrishnis are mentioned in a number of Vedic texts, which include the Taittiriya Samhita ( III. 2. 9. 3 ), the Taittiriya Brahmana ( III. 10. 9. 15 ), the Satapatha Brahmana ( III. 1. 1. 4 ) and the Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana ( I. 6. 1 ).

The Mandukya Upanishad defines turiya as:

In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Rudras are associated with the ten vital energies ( rudra-prana ) in the body and the eleventh being the Ātman ( the soul ).

While, older Upanishads such as the Brihadaranyaka, mention several times that the Self is described as Neti neti or not this-not this, Upanishads post Buddhism, like the Maitri Upanishad, define Ātman as only the defiled individual self, rather than the universal self.

Katha Upanishad conceives the purusha as an individual soul which Ātman ( Self ) inhabits.

" The Chandogya Upanishad for example does, and it sees Self as underlying the whole world, being " below ," " above ," and in the four directions.

While the pre-Buddhist Upanishads link the Self to the attitude " I am ," others like the post-Buddhist Maitri Upanishad hold that only the defiled individual self, rather than the universal self, thinks " this is I " or " this is mine ".

This is the case, for instance, of King Jaivala, whose knowledge was not imparted by any priest, but rather reserved to the warrior caste ; also, in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ( 4. 3. 1 ) King Janaka teaches the brahmana Yajnavalkya the doctrine of the transcendent Self.

Anyone who worships a divinity other than the Self is called a domestic animal of the gods in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

The motto of the school is “ Tapah – prabhaavaada deva prassadaach – cha ” from Svetasvatara Upanishad, and it points out that the Self is realized by the power of one ’ s experience and grace of God.

Another feature of this Upanishad is the Yoga prescribed for attaining Self Realization.

Adi Shankaracharya, as with the reference in the Sharabha Upanishad, refers to this 356th name of Vishnu sahasranama as not mentioning the lion-killing animal at all and instead interprets the name to mean, " As the Lord shines in the body as the indwelling Self, He is called Sharabha, while the body is sara ( perishable ).

The Isha Upanishad ( Devanagari: ईश ा व ा स ् य उपन ि षद ्,, otherwise Ishopanishad or ) is one of the shortest of the Upanishads, consisting of 17 or 18 verses in total ; like other core texts of the vedanta, it is considered revealed scripture ( Śruti ) by diverse traditions within Hinduism.

In Chapter 1 of 10th book of the Bhagavata Purana, Vasudeva, the father of Krishna, exhorts Kamsa to refrain from killing his wife, Devaki, the mother of Krishna, by stating that death is certain for those who are born and when the body returns to the five elements, the soul leaves the body and helplessly obtains another form in accordance with the laws of karma, citing passages from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, IV: 4: 3.

Ethics in the Upanishad revolve around the five Yajnas or sacrifices.

From the Aryo-Hindu tradition, he sees the human type of the Rajarshi as an embodiment of the Golden Age ideal and quotes the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ( 1. 4. 11 ): " This is why nothing is greater than the warrior nobility ; the priests themselves venerate the warrior when the consecration of the king occurs.

' Prarabdha ' ( Devanagari: प ् र ा रब ् ध ) is employed in the Nada Bindu Upanishad verse 21 as follows in Devanagari for probity and as rendered in English by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar ( 1914 ):