![]() Chapter 3, 4, and 5: Narayana Mantra Ĭhapters 3 and 4 state that studying the Narayana Upanishad is the path to fearless life, achieving immortality, becoming a part of Brahman. Chapter 2: Narayana is the one God Ĭhapter 2 declares that Narayana is one without a second, eternal god, same as Brahma, Shiva, Sakra, time, the corporal, the uncorporeal, the inner, the outer, this whole universe, what was, and what is to be. Everyone is born from Narayana, and ultimately merges back into Narayana. From him were born Brahma, Rudra, Prajapati, the twelve Adityas, Indra, the eleven Rudras, the eight Vasus, the meters of verses, all sages, and all beings. ![]() He created the elements of the universe, namely the wind ( Vayu), the light ( Jyoti), the water ( Apas), the fire ( Agni), the ether ( Akasha) and the Prithvi (earth). The Upanishad asserts in Chapter 1 that Narayana created the prana (life essence, breath), the senses, and the mind (Chit and the consciousness). Chapter 1: Everything was born in Narayana, everything ends in Narayana The Upanishad is short, and has five chapters. The text, suggests Deussen, is probably compiled from passages from different era and texts. The Narayana Upanishad asserts that "all gods, all rishis, and all beings are born from Narayana, and merge into Narayana". The text is classified as one of the Mantra Upanishads. The Narayana Upanishad posits, " Om Namo Narayanaya", an eight-syllabled mantra, as a means of reaching salvation, which is communion with Vishnu. The Upanishad is, states Paul Deussen, among those that can be described as "cult of formula", where meditation shifts from objects and philosophy to that of a specific formula. It is one of the 14 Vaishnava Upanishads, and it recommends the bhakti of Narayana (Vishnu). It is written in the Sanskrit language, attached to the Krishna (Black) Yajurveda. It is listed as number 33 in the early 19th-century Henry Thomas Colebrooke anthology. ![]() The Narayana Upanishad ( Sanskrit: नारायण उपनिषद्) is one of the minor Upanishads, listed as number 18 in the extended anthology of 108 Upanishads recited by Rama to Hanuman in Hindu literature.
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