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。
A Śaiva manual on the worship of Dakṣiṇāmūrti — Śiva as the silent teacher seated beneath the fig tree. It gives the mantra, the hand-gesture, and the contemplation; we read it as a book about teaching itself.