INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Note:The Upanishads are very comprehensive and extensively written. It thus can become hard to draw lines of what it really is about. But the central theme is always philosophical and hence, we can say they are books on philosophy.

Detailed explanation-2: -A doctrine on Hindu thought and culture and perhaps the most important literature from ancient India, The Upanishads expound on principles like samsara, brahman, atman, karma, dharma and moksha and form the core of Indian philosophy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Sanskrit term Upaniṣad (from upa “by” and ni-ṣad “sit down") translates to “sitting down near", referring to the student sitting down near the teacher while receiving spiritual knowledge. (Gurumukh) Other dictionary meanings include “esoteric doctrine” and “secret doctrine".

Detailed explanation-4: -The Upanishads present a vision of an interconnected universe with a single, unifying principle behind the apparent diversity in the cosmos, any articulation of which is called brahman. Within this context, the Upanishads teach that brahman resides in the atman, the unchanging core of the human individual.

Detailed explanation-5: -Written sometime between 1904 and 1906, during the latter part of his stay in Baroda, The Philosophy of the Upanishads, though left incomplete by the author, represents an early stage of Sri Aurobindo’s thinking on the most important scriptures of Vedanta philosophy.