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What are the four Upanishads?
Principal Upanishads The Aitareya, Kauṣītaki and Taittirīya Upanishads may date to as early as the mid 1st millennium BCE, while the remnant date from between roughly the 4th to 1st centuries BCE, roughly contemporary with the earliest portions of the Sanskrit epics.
What is Samaveda?
The Samaveda is the Veda of Chants, or “storehouse of knowledge of chants”. According to Frits Staal, it is “the Rigveda set to music”. It is a fusion of older melodies (sāman) and the Rig verses. The Samaveda text contains notated melodies, and these are probably the world’s oldest surviving ones.
Who wrote Samaveda?
According to tradition, Vyasa is the compiler of the Vedas, who arranged the four kinds of mantras into four Samhitas (Collections).
How many Brahma Sutras are there?
It consists of 134 sutras, with eleven Adhikaranas in the first Pada, seven Adhikaranas in second, fourteen Adhikaranas in third, and eight in the fourth Pada.
What does Samaveda talk about?
How many Mahavakyas are there?
Though there are many Mahavakyas, four of them, one from each of the four Vedas, are often mentioned as “the Mahavakyas”. According to the Vedanta-tradition, the subject matter and the essence of all Upanishads are the same, and all the Upanishadic Mahavakyas express this one universal message in the form of terse and concise statements.
What are ‘mahavakya’ or ‘great sentences’?
These special Sentences in ‘Upanishads’ reveal the nature of Atman (Self) and Brhm (the Divine) and those are called ‘MahaVakya’ or ‘Great Sentences’. Each approach Brhm from a different perspective while addressing the non-differentiation of Atma and Brhm.
Which is the first Maha Vakya?
The first Maha Vakya, Pragnanam Brahma (Consciousness is the Brhm) is the Lakshana Vakya (Defining Sentence). This Maha Vakya is from an Upanishad related to Rig Veda.
What is the meaning of Upadesha vakya?
This Maha Vakya is from an Upanishad related to Yajur Veda. The third Maha Vakya, Tat-tvam-asi (the entire substratum of the universe is Brhm) is the Upadesha Vakya (Sentence taught by the GURU to the desciple).