{"id":406,"date":"2023-12-11T05:13:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T05:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2023-12-11T05:15:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T05:15:53","slug":"what-are-upanishads-the-guru-shishya-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/what-are-upanishads-the-guru-shishya-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Upanishads: The Guru-Shishya Parmapara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>UPANISHAD<\/strong>( <strong>UP <\/strong>= sitting near <strong>NISHAD <\/strong>= the feet of the teacher) again as the beauty of Sanskrit language is the great extant literature of vedant philosophy. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upanishads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upanishads <\/a><\/strong>are the shining jewels of Indian culture and tradition which needs no introduction.  Starting first chronologically Upanishads are part of one of the six orthodox schools of philosophy known as <strong>SHATH DARSHAN<\/strong>. It comes under <strong>VEDANT <\/strong>(the essence of Vedas) and interestingly apart from various <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/\">Yoga schools<\/a><\/strong> of knowledge it deals with it has stories where sages and scholars continuously interact in form of dialogues and discussions where the basic ideology is that the thirsty pupil approaches <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What are Upanishads? Introduction to Upanishads - Sanskar Yogashala, Rishikesh, India\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oMB5sqONZxE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Yoga What are Upanishads: The Guru-Shishya Parmapara<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br>In total there are 24 such divines, spiritual and extremely conclusive stories of heroic scholars, knowledgeable kings and renunciate sages in a plethora of themes and ways. These stories are found in the principle <strong>Upanishads<\/strong>, the first and oldest of <strong>Upanishads <\/strong>are 11 <strong>principle Upanishads.<\/strong> They are as follows:<br><br><strong>1. ISHOPANISHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(ISHA = eternal supreme god)<br><strong>2. KENOPANISHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(KEN = that and how)<br><strong>3. PRASHNOPANISHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(PRASHN = questions)<br><strong>4. MUNDAKOPANISHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(MUNDAKA = as clear as a shaven head)<br><strong>5. MANDUKYOPANISHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(MANDUKYA = As still as a FROG (Yoga\u2019s Frog posture)<br><strong>6. CHHANDOGYOPANSIHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(CHHANDOGYA = poetic and syllabic)<br><strong>7. BRIHADARANYAK UPANISHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(BRIHADARANYAK = Great wilderness of thought)<br><strong>8. TAITREYA UPANISHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(TAITREYA = partridge bird)<br><strong>9. KATHOPANISHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(KATH = inscribed on a wooden tablet)<br><strong>10. AITREYOPNISHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(AITREYA = by AITREYA MAHIDAS, the complier)<br><strong>11. SHWETASHWATAROPNISHAD\u00a0<\/strong>(SHWETASHWATAR = bearer of the white horse)<br><br><strong>Upanishad <\/strong>tales are the shining gems of universal philosophy while Upanishad establishes the fundamental concepts of <strong>ATMA <\/strong>( true self, the soul), <strong>AHAMKAR <\/strong>( self we know) and <strong>PARAMATMA <\/strong>( the supreme soul).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Upanishads: The Guru-Shishya Parmapara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,12,10,28,11,13,8,9],"tags":[36,29,40,68,15,37,38,26,27,39,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanskaryogashala.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}