奥义书——吠陀传统的哲学核心，阐明梵、真我、知识、行动与解脱的本质。十部主要奥义书，另加精选的毗湿奴派小奥义书。
On the highest rank of the renounced — the paramahaṃsas, who have neither staff, nor marks, nor dwelling. The book sharply separates renunciation as a status from renunciation as a state, and says only the second has worth.