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Upanishads

The Upaniṣads — the philosophical core of the Vedic tradition, revealing the nature of Brahman, the Ātman, knowledge, action and liberation. The ten principal Upaniṣads together with select minor Vaiṣṇava Upaniṣads.

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Maitrāyaṇī Upaniṣad

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Chapter 1 — Maitrāyaṇī Upaniṣad85 verses

One of the oldest and largest: it opens with the story of a king who went to the forest in disgust at the body, and passes into a teaching on two "selves" — the one that tastes, and the one that watches. Here too is one of the earliest descriptions of the six limbs of yoga.