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The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is credited to ancient sage Yajnavalkya, but likely refined by a number of ancient Vedic scholars.

DiscussionThe Brihadaranyaka text has been an important Upanishad to the Vedanta scholars, and discusses many early concepts and theories foundational to Hinduism such as Karma, Atman and others.

ContentFirst chapterThe Brihadaranyaka Upanishad starts by stating one of many Vedic theories of creation of the universe.

The Soul, states Brihadaranyaka, is the imperishable one that is invisible and concealed pervading all reality.

Like Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, the Chandogya Upanishad is an anthology of texts that must have pre-existed as separate texts, and were edited into a larger text by one or more ancient Indian scholars.

Mind creates desire, asserts Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, with its basis in pleasure.

Eliot makes use of the story The Voice of the Thunder and for the source of datta, dayadhvam, and damyata found in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

Delhi (1983)Émile Senart, Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad, Belles Lettres (1967) TITUS online edition (based on both Weber and Caland)Sivananda Saraswati, The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: Sanskrit text, English translation, and commentary.

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is a treatise on Ātman (Soul, Self), includes passages on metaphysics, ethics and a yearning for knowledge that influenced various Indian religions, ancient and medieval scholars, and attracted secondary works such as those by Adi Shankara and Madhvacharya .

A key scripture to various schools of Hinduism, the Brihadaranyaka Upanisad is tenth in the Muktikā or canon of 108 Upanishads.

The sage of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad II iii 1-6, beginning with there are two forms of Brahman, the material and the immaterial, the solid and the fluid, the Sat ‘being’ and tya, ‘that’ of Satya – which means true, denies the existence of everything other than Brahman.

Brihadaranyaka is one of the first Upanishads, along with that of Jaiminiya Upanishad and Chandogya Upanishads.