Nikola Benin. Upanishad -A later sacred text of Hinduism of a mystical nature dealing

Nikola Benin, Ph.D

Upanishad - one of a class of speculative treatises in Sanskrit literature, 1805, from Sanskrit upa-nishad, literally "a sitting down beside" 📜 From upa "near to" (from PIE root *upo "under," also "up from under," hence also "over") + ni-shad "to sit or lie down," from ni "downward" (from PIE *ni-, see nether) + -sad "sitting," from PIE root *sed- (1) "to sit" This basic interpretation one may find in Max Müller's linguistic approach, while P. Deussen extracts its meaning out from the hashtagnisad, which means "to consecrate", consecrated, or consecretion [itself]; referred to a secret-ive knowledge transferred by a Master to his Pupil or Student. Oldenberg, on the other hand, formulates the word using the base hashtagupâsana, which means "to show respect or deep appreciation" Shankara gave the most appropriate interpretation, treating its root hashtagsad, in terms "to battle over, to overtake, to defeat metaphysical ignorance, hashtagavidyâ, redirecting us to the right path towards hashtagmukti (liberation)