RELG 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Katha Upanishad, Upanishads, Human Beings In Buddhism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 252
• Professor: Lisa

Document Summary

Upanishad: upa = close by, ni = down, sat = sit, sitting down close to (the guru) / sitting at the feet of the guru traditionally how texts were passed from the. Guru to the student: rsis (also rishis) sages the ones passing down the. 6 classical systems of philosophy sad-darsana: divided first into systems that accept vedic authority and systems that reject vedic authority (e. g. buddhism and. Jainism: one that accept are in the majority not reliant on the vedas or the vedic texts but still accept their authority, schools that directly focus on vedic texts. Mimamsa ritualistic aspects: schools that have their own independent texts. No! you have to live a spiritual existence rather than just existing in the physical realm. Katha upanisad 6. 7: the nondual nature of brahman, it moves yet it does not move, it"s far away yet it is near at hand! It is within this whole world yet it"s also outside this whole world.