Avadhutaka Upanishad
Template:IndicText Avadhutaka Upanishad (Sanskrit) is numbered 79 of the 108 Upanishads of the Muktikā Upanishad. The Avadhuta Upanishad is also associated with the Krishna Yajurveda.
Nomenclature, orthography and etymology
Also known as the Bṛhad Avadhūta Upaniṣad, and the Avadhutopanishad.
English discourse
Olivelle (1992) rendered a translation.
Detail
Olivelle (1992: p.5) affirms that the classification of this Upanishad as a 'Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣad' was first done by Paul Deussen (1845 - 1919) and is not a classification native to the tradition:
The Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads, however, do not constitute an indigenous classification of the Upaniṣads; no Indian list or collection of Upaniṣads groups these texts together. Paul Deussen was the first to use the category Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads.[1]
The following quotation is verse five of this Upanishad with an English rendering by .A. A. Ramanathan (n.d.: unpaginated):
" One should identify Brahman neither with the head nor with the middle part nor with the bottom but with (what remains in the shape of) the tail, since it is said that Brahman is ‘the Tail’ and substratum. Thus, those who contemplate this fourfold division attain the supreme Goal."[2]
evaṁ catuṣpathaṁ kṛtvā te yānti paramāṁ gatim
na karmaṇā na prajayā dhanena tyāgenaike amṛtatvamānaśuḥ ||5||
Primary resource
Devanagari
English
Notes
- ^ Olivelle, Patrick (1992). Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu scriptures on asceticism and renunciation. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195070453, 9780195070453. Source: [1] (accessed: Thursday March 11, 2010)
- ^ Ramanathan, A. A. (n.d.). Avadhuta Upanishad. Source: [2] (accessed: Thursday March 11, 2010)