| In the Chandogya Upanishad, the Puranas and the Mahabharata, generally known as histories, are mentioned as the fifth Veda. |
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| There is absolutely no reference about this Veda in the Chandogya Upanishad or in the Brahmana texts or in the Jatakas or in the Bhagavad Gita. |
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| The term bhakti, in the sense of devotion to a personal god, appears in the Bhagavadgita and the Shvetashvatara Upanishad. |
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| Rajesh's violence and the wisdom of the sacred Upanishad literature remain equally mysterious to him. |
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| One of the oldest texts produced by them is the well-known Upanishad Brihadarandyaka. |
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| The means of escaping and conquering death devised in the Brahmanas were of a ritual nature, but one of the oldest Upanishads, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, emphasizes the knowledge of the cosmic connection underlying ritual. |
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| The Kena Upanishad repeatedly asks kena, 'by what' power something is the case. |
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| The Isha Upanishad, an ancient Hindu scripture, warns of the perils of a life devoted solely to meditation, or solely to action, and extols the virtues of a life devoted to both action and meditation. |
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| The Katha Upanishad and Bhagavad Gita present narratives where the student criticizes the teacher's inferior answers. |
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| In the Svetashvatara Upanishad, Rudra is for the first time called Shiva and is described as the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe. |
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| Anyone who worships a divinity other than the Self is called a domestic animal of the gods in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. |
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| Yajnavalkya, sage and teacher who figures prominently in the earliest of the Hindu philosophical and metaphysical texts known as the Upanishads, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. |
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| It was presented in the Upanishad texts of India and has been used in the sacred chants of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and by the Zoroastrians. |
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