13. Maitrāyaṇī Upaniṣad 1

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13. Maitrāyaṇī Upaniṣad 1

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Maitrāyaṇī Upaniṣad (मैत्रायणी उपनिषद्) is a name commonly used by His Excellency S. Radhakrishnan. It is also generally referred to as Maitrī Upaniṣad or Maitrāṇīya Upaniṣad (मैत्री उपनिषद्).
“Now answer us a further question: Agni, Vāyu, Āditya, Kāla (time), which is breath (Prāṇa), Anna (food), Brahmā, Rudra, Viṣṇu. Thus do some mediate on him, some on another. Say which of these is the best for us?” And he said to them: “These are but the chief manifestations of the highest, the immortal, the incorporeal Brahman. … Brahman, indeed, is all this, and a man may meditate on, worship, or discard also those which are its manifestations.” (Maitrāyaṇī Upaniṣad, iv. 5-6).
“Two kinds of knowledge must be known, the higher and the lower. The lower knowledge is that which the Ṛg, Sāma, Atharva Veda, Ceremonial, Grammar give… but the higher knowledge is that by which the indestructible Brahman is apprehended.” (Maitrāyana, vi. 21).

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