sarira, body, 418 śānta, tranquil, 392, 410 santatva, tranquillity, 442 śraddha, faith, 163, 178, 231, 285, 341, 369, 371, (377), 378, 389 śrotriya, versed in the scriptures, 160, 234, (242), 288, 369
samsăra, cycle of transmigration, 57, 352, 410, 413, 441, 447 samkalpa, conception, 101, 252-
253, 264, 300, 321, 339, 407 samjña(na), consciousness, 147, 300
sat, being, (11-12), 241, 265,
287, 372, 381; real, actual, 97, 386, 442
sattva, Pure Quality, 423; pure being, 359, 452 satya, the real, truth, 95, 129,
151, 155, 259, 265, 285, 287, 306, 427, 429 saṁnyāsa-yoga, application of re- nunciation, 376
saṁnyasin, ascetic, 432 samadhi, absorption, 435 samāna, equalizing breath, 125, 208, 239, 259, 383, 384, 386, 416, 430, 446, 453 samprasada, serene, 265, 272,
sambhava, origin, 364 sambhūti, becoming, 364 sammoha, stupor, confusion, 323,
sarväpti, all-obtaining, 322-324 sarvavat, all-containing, 6, (134) sankhya, discrimination, 410 sādhu, good, 288, 289
saman, chant, 79, 92, 154, 155, 180-186, 189-199, 201- 202, 305, 311, 370, 381, 388 samya, identity, 374 sayujya(tva), complete union, 420, 422, 437
siman, hair-part, 297, 3126 suşupta, sound asleep, deep sleep, 95, 392
susupta-sthāna, deep-sleep state,
392 sușumnă, name of an artery, 3845, 437
sthana, place, state, 981 smrti, traditional doctrines, 262; memory, 300, (444) svapna-sthāna, svapna-sthāna, dreaming state,
svabhava, inherent nature, 8, 408 svayam-bhu, the Self-existent, 106, 149, 176, 353, 363
svarāj, autonomous, 64', 261 svatantrya, independence, 437 svārājya, self-rule, 64', 279; chief sovereignty, (202), 205-206, 334, (450)
hamsa, name for the individual and the cosmic soul, 442,
134, 135, 395, 402, 410, 429, 454
hara, epithet of the soul, 396 hin(-kara), the sound hin, 165, 189, 191–199
hita, vein, artery, 95, 132, 136, 267, 333, 361, 384
This Index aims to present, in the alphabetic arrangement of the key-words, a complete survey of the principal contents of the thirteen Upanishads translated in this volume. The names and subjects of the Bibliography have not been included here, and considerations of space have likewise required the omission of proper names of secondary importance.
The numbers refer to pages. Superior numerals refer to the footnotes. 423, 431-432, 433, 448, 452
absorption (samādhi), 435
action, organs of, (karmendriya),
acts, a person's, determine rein- carnation, 54-57, 140-141, 233, 303, 352, 357, 369, 407, 417-418
determine character, 110, 140 affect not the real self, 143-
144, 362 attainment of the Atman ter-
minates, 373, 376
determine the soul's course, 384 the One God is the overseer of, 409
the soul fettered by the con-
sequences of, 420 by tranquillity one destroys.
good and evil, 436, 447 see also 'evil,' 'good and evil' actual, the, see 'real'
actuator, the Great Soul as, 395 Aditi, 75, 354
Aditya, 199, 211, 214, 278, 279,
294, 403, 422, 428, 448 Adityas, the, 84, 120, 201, 202,
205-206, 212, 313, 453 agent, Brahma the real, in the individual, 335-336 Agni, 85, 96, 124, 165, 171, 173, 189, 199, 202, 205, 211, 214, 278, 279, 288, 294, 338, 339, 354, 358, 365, 381, 397, 403, 422,
Agni Vaiśvānara, 73, (152), 416 Agnihotra sacrifice, 54, 310, 368, 448, 450, 451
mystical interpretation of the, 238-240
Aitareya Upanishad, cosmological theory in the, 10
All, seeing and obtaining the, 262, 458
all-knowing, see 'omniscient' All-obtaining, the, (sarvāpti), 322- 324 all-pervading, the Great Soul is, 396-397
see also immanence' alphabet, utterance of the sounds of the, 458
analogy, reasoning from, 611 Angiras, 179, 366, 367 anthropomorphic conception of the world-ground, 23-26 appearance (rupa), 327 Arka, 429
arrow, analogies of bow and, in meditation, 372, 438, 440 arteries, or veins, called hitā, 95, 132, 136, 267, 333, 361, 384
contended with the gods, 76- 78, 178-179 offspring of Prajapati, 150 false doctrine taught to the,
269, 456 Aśvamedha, horse-sacrifice, 73, 75-76, 111
Aśvins, the two, 104, 149, 172 Atharva-Veda, the, 100, 127, 146,
204, 206, 250, 251, 254, 285, 367, 445, 446 reincarnation mentioned in the, 54, 379* atheism (nastikya), 419 Atman, Soul, born from the aboriginal waters, 10-
the ultimate basis of the mani- fold world, 21, 81-82, 386- 387 development of the conception of, 23-32 progressively defined, 26, 114– 117, 234-240
immanent in all things, 28, 82, 100, 102-103, III-112, 246-250, 396-397, 402 devoid of ethical distinctions, 63, 81, 348, 357 union with the, 66
the aboriginal sole existent one, 81, 85, 294
identified with all the gods and
powers, 82, 429, 454 paramountly near and dear, 83,
threefold appearance of the, 92 the reality of things, 95, 265, 427 the source of all creatures and things, 95, 372, 445, 452* the supreme object of know- ledge, 100, 396
as subject of consciousness, never an object of know- ledge, 101-102, 112, 428- 429
identified with Brahma, 105, 144, 210, 273, 298, 301, 372, 397, 414, 435 the unperceived all-functioner
capable of indefinite individua- tion, 262, 373
a false doctrine of the, taught to the Asuras, 269, 456 produced from a pre-existent being, 287
the agent in a person's func- tions, 300, 354, 428 responsible for an individual's good and bad deeds, 328 knowable only to the elect, 35°, 376
higher than the intellect, 352 grants desires, 357 incomprehensible except as existent, 360, 435
how attained, 369, 374 vision of the, liberates from sorrow and rebirth, 373,
has a dual nature, 373, 458 knowable only by thought purified from sense, 375
bad conduct, see 'evil' becoming (sambhūti), 364 Being, as the aboriginal entity, II-12, 241, 245 produced from Non-being, 11- 12, 287
and Non-being, Brahma is, 372 and Non-being, Life is, 381 Bhagavad-Gītā, 66
Bhava, the Existent, 429, 454 Bhūtas, ghosts, 413, 455 birth ceremonies, 172-174 blind, simile of the blind leading the, 346, 368, 456
bliss, the, of Brahma, 138, 285- 289, 291
a self that consists of, 286,
289, 293, 392 bodily self (sarirätman), 285, 334 body, the soul's point of ingress into and egress from the, 267, 278-279, 297, 361, 384 the spirit confined in the, 272
progressively defined, 16-21,
92-95, 127-131
as apart from, yet identified with, the world, 21-22 immanent in the world and in all beings, 21-22, 82, 111- 112, 287, 452 variously identified, 22, 153-
154, 214, 222, 251-258, 290, 291, 292, 301, 307, 308, 391, 434
one quarter phenomenal, three quarters immortal and in- accessible, 34, 208, 458 has two opposite forms, 34-36, 97, 425, 434, 437-438, 450 a conglomerate mass, 35, 140 inconceivable and incompre- hensible, 41, 335
Agni and Vayu subject to, 53, 337-339
the self of the gods, 83-84 to identify oneself with, the highest aim, 83-84, 437
the Reality in all living things, 97, 151, 287, 372 a knowledge-mass, IOI the unification of everything,
identified with the Atman, 105,
144, 210, 273, 298, 301, 372, 397, 414, 435 the self-existent, 106, 149, 176 identified with the One God, 120-121, 403, 406
the individual soul identified with, 140
expounders of, or discoursers.
on, 144, 201, 394, 402, 427 (see also 'Brahma-knowers') an emanation from primeval water, 151
as mouth, mystic doctrine of, 206-207
all-inclusive, 209-210 fourfold, 213-214 knowledge of, liberates from rebirth and from all fetters, 286, 395, 399, 447
is both Being and Non-being, 286, 372 developed the antitheses of existence, 287
manifest in cosmic and per- sonal functions, 316-317, 335-336
paradox of the inscrutability of, 336-337
the Vedic gods ignorant of, 337-339
the great object of desire, 339 hidden, 356, 372, 396
built up from the primeval Im- perishable, 367 described, 372-373
the higher and the lower, 373, 387
the conjectural First Cause, 394
threefold, 395, 396 revealed in the body through
meditation, 396, 437-438 the lower gods forms of, 422
on disclosing, 207, 377, 442 the basis of superiority, 339 imparted by Brahmā, 366 a competent teacher to be sought for, 369
leads to union with Brahma, 395 contained in all the Upani- shads, 414
means of attaining, 421 see also 'knowledge Brahma-source, the, 374 Brahma-wheel, 395, 408 Brahma-world, the course of the soul to the, 56, 163, 224,
232-233, 304, 443-444 liberation beyond death and rebirth in the, 56, 163, 274, 376
free from evil, 62, 265 the highest world, 138 conditions in the, 144 entered in deep sleep, 265 description of the, 265-267, 304-305
a perfected soul passes at death into the, 273, 274 the knower's triumphal pro- gress through the, 304-306 degree of perception of the Atman in the, 359
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