(SECOND KHAṆḌA) - Misc (Upanishads), The Thirteen Principal Upanishads [1921]
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The Thirteen Principal Upanishads, translated from the Sanskrit with an outline of the philosophy of the Upanishads and an annotated bibliography, by Robert Ernest Hume (Oxford University Press, 1921).
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- Preface
- Remarks Concerning the Translation Its Method and Arrangement
- List of Abbreviations
- Errata
- An Outline of the Philosophy of the Upanishads
- Chapter I: The Place of the Upanishads In the History of Philosophy
- Chapter II: The Upanishads and Their Place In Indian Philosophy
- Chapter III: First Attempts At the Conception of a Unitary World-ground
- Chapter IV: The Development of the Conception of Brahma
- Chapter V: The Development of the Conception of the Atman and Its Union With Brahma
- Chapter VI: The Realistic Conception of the Ultimate Unity, and the Doctrine of Illusion
- Chapter VII: Idealism and the Conception of Pure Unity
- Chapter VIII: The Outcome On Religion and On the Doctrine of Karma
- Chapter IX: The Outcome On Practical Life and On Morals
- Chapter X: The Artificial Method of Unity In Renunciation and In Yoga
- Chapter XI: Concluding Estimate
- BṚihad-ĀraṆyaka Upanishad
- First AdhyĀya
- Second AdhyĀya
- Third AdhyĀya
- Fourth AdhyĀya
- Fifth AdhyĀya
- Sixth AdhyĀya
- ChĀndogya Upanishad
- First PrapĀṬhaka a Glorification of the Chanting of the Sāma-veda 1
- Second PrapĀṬhaka the Significance of the Chant In Various Forms
- Third PrapĀṬhaka Brahma As the Sun of the World-all
- Fourth PrapĀṬhaka Conversational Instructions
- Fifth PrapĀṬhaka Concerning Breath, the Soul, and the Universal Soul
- Sixth PrapĀṬhaka the Instruction of Śvetaketu By Uddālaka Concerning the Key to All Knowledge
- Seventh PrapĀṬhaka the Instruction of Nārada By Sanatkumāra
- Eighth PrapĀṬhaka Concerning the Nature of the Soul
- TaittirĪya Upanishad
- First VallĪ (Śikshā Vallī, ‘chapter Concerning Instruction’)
- Second VallĪ (brahmānanda Vallī, ‘bliss-of-brahma Chapter’)
- Third VallĪ (bhṛigu Vallī, ‘chapter Concerning Bhṛigu’)
- Aitareya Upanishad
- First AdhyĀya
- Second AdhyĀya
- Third AdhyĀya
- KaushĪtaki Upanishad 1
- First AdhyĀya the Course of Reincarnation, and Its Termination Through Metaphysical Knowledge 2
- Second AdhyĀya the Doctrine of Prāṇa, Together With Certain Ceremonies
- Third AdhyĀya Doctrine of Prāṇa (the Breathing Spirit)
- Fourth AdhyĀya a Progressive Definition of Brahma 2
- Kena Upanishad 1
- (first KhaṆḌa)
- (second KhaṆḌa)
- (third KhaṆḌa) 3
- (fourth KhaṆḌa)
- KaṬha Upanishad
- First VallĪ 1
- Second VallĪ
- Third VallĪ
- Fourth VallĪ
- Fifth VallĪ
- Sixth VallĪ
- ĪŚĀ Upanishad 1
- MuṆḌaka Upanishad
- First MuṆḌaka Preparation For the Knowledge of Brahma
- Second MuṆḌaka the Doctrine of Brahma-Ātman
- Third MuṆḌaka the Way to Brahma
- PraŚna Upanishad 1
- First PraŚna
- Second PraŚna
- Third PraŚna
- Fourth PraŚna
- Fifth PraŚna
- Sixth PraŚna
- MĀṆḌŪkya Upanishad
- ŚvetĀŚvatara Upanishad
- First AdhyĀya
- Second AdhyĀya
- Third AdhyĀya
- Fourth AdhyĀya
- Fifth AdhyĀya
- Sixth AdhyĀya
- Maitri Upanishad
- First PrapĀṬhaka
- Second PrapĀṬhaka
- Third PrapĀṬhaka
- Fourth PrapĀṬhaka
- Fifth PrapĀṬhaka
- Sixth PrapĀṬhaka
- Seventh PrapĀṬhaka
- A Bibliography of the Upanishads Selected, Classified, and Annotated
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The paradox of Its inscrutability
9 (1). [Teacher:] If you think ‘I know well,’ only very slightly now do you know!—a form of Brahma!—what thereof is yourself, and what thereof is among the gods! So then it is to be pondered upon (mīmāṁsyam) indeed by you.
[Pupil:] I think it is known.
10 (2). I think not ‘I know well’;
Yet I know not ‘I know not’!
He of us who knows It, knows It;
Yet he knows not ‘I know not.’
11 (3). [Teacher:]
It is conceived of by him by whom It is not conceived of.
He by whom It is conceived of, knows It not.
It is not understood by those who [say they] understand It.
It is understood by those who [say they] understand It not.
The value of knowledge of It
12 (4). When known by an awakening, It is conceived of;
Truly it is immortality one finds.
With the Soul (Ātman) one finds power ;
With knowledge one finds the immortal.
13 (5). If one have known [It] here, then there is truth.
If one have known [It] not here, great is the destruction (vinasṭi).
Discerning [It] in every single being, the wise,
On departing from this world, become immortal.
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