Shaiva Upanishads (A Critical Study)
by Arpita Chakraborty | 2013 | 33,902 words
This page relates 鈥楽hvetashvatara Upanishad on Brahman (Introduction)鈥� of the study on the Shaiva Upanishads in English, comparing them with other texts dealing with the Shiva cult (besides the Agamas and Puranas). The 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲s are ancient philosophical and theological treatises. Out of the 108 Upanishads mentioned in the Muktikopanishad, 15 are classified as Saiva-Upanisads.
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1. 艢惫别迟腻艣惫补迟补谤补 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲 on Brahman (Introduction)
The 艢惫别迟腻艣惫补迟补谤补 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲 gives the following views on Brahman
Who is Brahman? Seekers of Brahman (i.e. the Vedas) discuss (among themselves): What is the cause? (Is it) Brahman? When are we born? Why do we live? Where is our final rest? Under whose orders are we, who know the Brahman, subjected to the law of happiness and misery?
[...] 艢惫别迟腻艣惫补迟补谤补 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲 I.I
Time, nature, law, chance, matter, energy, intelligence -neither these, nor combination of these, can bear examination because of their own birth, identity and the existence of the self. The self also is not a free agent, being under the sway of happiness and misery. Practising the method of meditation, they realized that Being who is the God of religion, the Self of philosophy and the Energy of science; who exists as the self luminous power in everyone; who is the source of the intellect, emotions and will; who is one without a second; who presides over all the causes enumerated above, beginning with time and ending with the individual soul; and who had been incomprehensible because of the limitations of their own intellect.[1]
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艢惫别迟腻艣惫补迟补谤补 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲 I. 1-3 [...]