Traditional attribution
The question of the thread and the inner controller (Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3.7)
अन्तर्यामिब्राह्मण (Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3.7)
Uddālaka relates that he was studying the sacrifice in the house of Patañcala Kāpya in the land of the Madras when a spirit (gandharva) possessing his teacher's wife asked whether they knew "the thread" binding this world, the next and all beings, and "the inner controller" that governs them from within. He challenges Yājñavalkya with the same question. The answer — the thread is the wind; the inner controller is the immortal ātman dwelling in all things without their knowing it — is one of the key texts of Vedāntic theology.
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Authorship note
A dialogue of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka in which Uddālaka is the questioner and Yājñavalkya the one who answers. The teaching Uddālaka says he received in the land of the Madras is his only within the fiction of the text.
Editions and translations
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English
The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation
Oxford University Press, 1998
Translation: Patrick Olivelle
ISBN 9780195124354
Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3.7.
Español
Uddalaka Aruni
Gran Upaniṣad del Bosque (Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad)
The Conscious LibraryGran Upaniṣad del Bosque (Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad)
Trotta, 2002
Translation: Consuelo Martín
ISBN 9788481645484
Other works by Uddalaka Aruni
- The teaching to Śvetaketu (Chāndogya Upaniṣad, book VI) · 650
- Chāndogya Upaniṣad (passages of Uddālaka Āruṇi) · 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 Upaniṣad (Āruṇeyī Upaniṣad)
- Āruṇi-śruti (lost text)
Sources
- Olivelle, Patrick (ed. y trad.). The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Chāndogya 5.3–5.24 y 6; Bṛhadāraṇyaka 3.7, 6.2, 6.3.7 y 6.5; Kauṣītaki 1.1.
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