Brhadaranyaka Upanisad
The whole forest
All forty-seven sections, kanda by kanda. The six doors on the home page are where most readers begin.
core, given the full treatment. context, a meditation or rite kept in full. a record kept, a genealogy preserved entire.
Madhu Kandaमधुकाण्ड
The honey portion: the Self as the sweetness within all beings, and the great identity.
- 1.1The sacrificial horse, and the worlds within it
- 1.2Death, and the worlds born of hunger
- 1.3The contest of the vital breath
- 1.4In the beginning, the Self: I am Brahman
- 1.5The sixteen parts of the Lord of creatures
- 1.6Name, form, and work
- 2.1Ajatasatru teaches Balaki where the Self rests
- 2.2The cradle of the vital force
- 2.3The two forms of Brahman: neti, neti
- 2.4Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi: for the sake of the Self
- 2.5The honey: the Self shining in all beings
- 2.6The line of teachers
Khila Kandaखिलकाण्ड
The supplement: the fullness, the thunder's threefold word, the five fires, the meditations.
- 5.1The fullness: that is full, this is full
- 5.2The threefold word of the thunder: da, da, da
- 5.3The heart as the Lord of creatures
- 5.4Brahman as the real
- 5.5The real, and the person in the sun and the eye
- 5.6The Self in the heart, made of mind
- 5.7Brahman as lightning
- 5.8Speech as the milch cow
- 5.9The fire in man that cooks the food
- 5.10The path of the one who departs
- 5.11The highest austerity: sickness, death, the pyre
- 5.12Brahman as food and as breath
- 5.13The uktha, the yajus, the saman, the ksatra
- 5.14The Gayatri and its four feet
- 5.15The dying man's prayer: O Pusan, uncover the face of truth
- 6.1The contest of the organs: the vital breath is greatest
- 6.2The five fires, and the two paths after death
- 6.3The rite for greatness
- 6.4Conception, birth, and the rites of begetting
- 6.5The line of teachers, back to Brahma