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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, exploring its profound nondual philosophy and key dialogues.

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, one of the oldest and most foundational Principal Upanishads of Hinduism, is being taught in this lecture series by Swami Sarvapriyananda. Belonging to the Śukla Yajurveda and forming the concluding portion of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, its name means “the great forest.” The text comprises six chapters organized into the Madhu, Yājñavalkya (Muni), and Khila kāṇḍas, and is tenth in the traditional canon of 108 Upanishads. Renowned for its profound nondual philosophy, it includes the celebrated dialogue between Yājñavalkya and his wife Maitreyi, where all love is shown to be ultimately directed toward the Self (Ātman), whose realization as identical with Brahman leads to immortality and infinite bliss. For more information, please visit: https://www.vedantany.org/brihadarany... Reference material: Book: https://a.co/d/iQqKCWM PDF of the entire Upanishad can be found https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/ite... .

People in this episode

Host: Swami Sarvapriyananda

Topics covered

• Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
• nondual philosophy
• Hinduism
• Yājñavalkya and Maitreyi
• Ātman and Brahman
• immortality
• infinite bliss

Keywords

• Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
• nondual philosophy
• Hinduism
• Ātman
• Brahman
• immortality
• infinite bliss
• Yājñavalkya
• Maitreyi

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vedanta Society of New York

Books & works: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, Śukla Yajurveda

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