Traditional attribution
Āruṇi Upaniṣad (Āruṇeyī Upaniṣad)
आरुण्युपनिषद् / आरुणेय्युपनिषद् (Āruṇi Upaniṣad)
A short prose text in which Prajāpati explains to Āruṇi that the renouncer must give up the sacred thread, the ritual fires and the recitation of the Vedas, except for the Āraṇyaka and the Upaniṣads, and live on alms, without a home, meditating on the ātman. It is an early source for the rules of saṃnyāsa.
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Authorship note
A late Upaniṣad of renunciation, assigned to the Sāmaveda, named after the sage: in it Āruṇi asks Prajāpati how to give up rituals. It is not his work. Sprockhoff and Olivelle count it among the oldest of the saṃnyāsa group, without a precise date.
Editions and translations
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English
The Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation
Oxford University Press, 1992
Translation: Patrick Olivelle
ISBN 9780195070453
Deutsch
Uddalaka Aruni
Sechzig Upanishad's des Veda
The Conscious LibrarySechzig Upanishad's des Veda
F. A. Brockhaus, 1897
Translation: Paul Deussen
Incluye la Āruṇeya Upaniṣad; dominio público.
Other works by Uddalaka Aruni
- The teaching to Śvetaketu (Chāndogya Upaniṣad, book VI) · 650
- Chāndogya Upaniṣad (passages of Uddālaka Āruṇi) · 650
- The question of the thread and the inner controller (Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3.7) · 650
- The doctrine of the five fires (pañcāgni-vidyā), received from Pravāhaṇa Jaivali · 650
- The teaching of the universal ātman (vaiśvānara-vidyā), before Aśvapati Kaikeya · 650
- Uddālaka's debates in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa · 700
- Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad, chapter 1: Āruṇi and Citra Gāṅgyāyani · 500
- Āruṇi-śruti (lost text)
Sources
- Olivelle, Patrick (trad.). The Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1992 (Āruṇi Upaniṣad).
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