Essay name: The concept of Creation in the Major Upanisads
Author:
C. Poulose
Affiliation: Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit / Department of Sanskrit Vedanta
This study deals with the Concept of Creation according to the Major Upanishads鈥攁ncient Indian scriptures that form a crucial part of Vedic literature and Indian philosophy. The present research investigates the Upanisadic philosophy in general as well as the school of Advaita Vedanta and other Indian philosophical traditions that incorporate Upanishadic teachings.
Chapter 2 - Major Upanishads
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i. ii. The assemblage of the higher luminous spheres, that is to say the higher states of being, is compared with the part of the head containing the brain and the brain with the mental functions. The sun and the moon or more exactly the principles represented in the sensible world by these two luminaries are the two eyes. 149 iii.
The igneous principle is the mouth.
iv.
The directions of space (di艣膩) are the ears.
V.
vi.
The atmosphere is to the lungs.
The intermediate region (Antariksa), extending
between the earth and the luminous sphere or the
heavens and considered as the region where forms
(relation to the gross state) are elaborated, corresponds
to the stomach. 150
vii. Finally the earth which is taken here as the emblem of
the whole lower portion of the body. The relationship
of these various members is the relationship between
the corresponding parts of the human organism.
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