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| Following the spread of Sanskrit between 1500-1000 BCE |
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| Earliest collection of the Vedas of hymns and chants associated with sacrifices to the various gods |
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| megasections of suktas to aid to memorizing |
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| Verses of the Rig Veda arranged for chanting in the form of song |
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| Collections of formulas spells and instructions concering rituals |
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| Following the Vedas, concerning matters of ritual brought up in the Vedas |
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| Concered with proper ritual actions |
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| form the final part of shruti, further commentaries to the Vedas but goes deep into philosophical thought of the Vedas |
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| Term for Upanishads "End of Veda" |
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| Differing schools of thought within he Vedanta |
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| Person devoted to search of transcendent knowledge |
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| Men that gave up everything for spritual enlightenment |
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| disciple of a particular guru |
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| Holy man who attracts a following of disciples |
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| a tightknit spritural community made of guru and his discples or sishyas |
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| Deer do not give birth to baby ducks, and falling apples do not fall upward |
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| law of nature..everything has a cause and effect |
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The beginning of and end of everything
Ultimate inner essences of all things |
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| Brahman is often described by this |
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The Supreme Self is beyond name and form
Beyond the senses inexhaustible
Without beginning and without end
Beyond time and space and causality eternal immutable |
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| Katha Upanishad about Brahman |
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| Him our eyes cannot see, nor words express He cannot be grasped even by the mind We do not know we cannot understand because he is different from the known and he is different from the unknown thus have we heard from the illumited ones |
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| not that not that not that |
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| the pure unmoving essential without attributes |
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| Active creative sources with attributes |
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| As the web isses out of the spides and is withdrawn as plants sprout from the earth as hair grows from the body Even so, the sages say This universe springs fromm the deathless Self The source of life |
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| (Vedic times referred to magical powers of the gods) Maya is the totality of everything that makes up the universe the form of "matter" is made into |
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| "matter" which every form or maya is made up of |
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| Brahman is fire and the sun and the moon and the stars He is the air and the sea Brahman is this boy he is that girl He is this man he is that woman and he is this old man too tottering on his staff His face is every where |
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| Inner law which upholds the Order of Nature / Balance of Nature |
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| indwelling in a sentient being consiousness |
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| Mistaking the ego "self" for "Self" atman |
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| To see through the illusion of the separate self and to comes to know the real self |
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| rebirth of the Atman the turning wheel Brahmans long quest for ultimately perfect rediscovery of Self |
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| As river flowing east and west Merge in the sea and become one with it Forgetting they were ever separate rivers so do all creatures lose their separateness when they merge at last into pure being There is nothing that does not come from him Of everything he is the inmost Self. He is the truth he is the Self supreme and you are that Shevataketu, you are that |
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| Work contaning the Bhagavad Gita |
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