Upanishad, one of four genres of texts that together constitute each of the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of most Hindu traditions. Each of the four Vedas—the Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, and Atharvaveda—consists of a Samhita (a “collection” of hymns
scriptures. For example, there is a protective practice invoking the nagas(dragons or serpent spirits) found among the earliest surviving Buddhist manuscripts from the Gandhara region. Then there’s the Bower manuscriptfound in the Taklamakan desert that seems to have belonged to a monk practicing ...
Vedas believed in “Universalism” or “Universal Brotherhood”. What science now, at the end of 20thcentury and at the beginning of the 21stcentury, says Vedas believed thousands of centuries or rather hundreds of millennium before, thatwe are one big familywhose roots can be traced to a sin...