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.
1Chapter 1 — Парабрахма-упанишада37 versesŚaunaka comes to Pippalāda to ask about the supreme Brahman, and the answer leads through the structure of a person to what in him is composed of nothing at all. Here too the sacred thread that is worn is examined: the real one is not made of cord.