Now, indeed, O king, this is the Brahma-knowledge, even the knowledge contained in all the Upanishads, as declared to us by the honorable Maitri. I will narrate it to you. Now, the Valakhilyas are ...

Waiting for Rain The God of rain in truth is a sacrificial fire, O Gautama; its fuel is the year, the clouds are its smoke, lightning is its flame, the thunderbolt its coals, thunder its sparks. In ...

This idea of the soul being waylaid by the body is also found in the Maitri Upanishad, which, remarkably, was written at around the same time as the Phaedo: The human soul rules the body; but the ...