When freed (from the senses) the wise, on departing from this world, become immortal. The eye does not go thither, nor speech, nor mind. We do not know, we do not understand, how any one can teach it.

In the Kena Upanishad, a parable involving gods and a goddess explores the question of the mind's direction towards objects. Agni and Vayu fail to overcome the challenge presented by a Yaksha-figure, ...

: After his translation-cum-interpretation of the Chandogya Upanishad, scholar T. Sivasankaran Nair has written a similar work on Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. It will be released at a function at the ...

The principal Upanishads are accepted to be those which Shankaracharya (AD 788-820) chose to comment upon. They are 10 in number and are enumerated in the Indian tradition as follows: Isha, Kena, ...