Introduction: 10.

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :


Very rarely have we even an internal evidence to ascribe definitely many of the Upanishads to a recognisable 'Guru' personage.

And, never have the great Rishis dared to sign their "UApanishadic - declarations "as their own".

Thus, the Upanishads are not generally named after any known Master.

Often, they are known by a sumbol with which we may recognise the particular text mentioned in our conversations.

The symbol, in many cases, is often taken from the first word  of the Mantram in the Upanishad.

Thus, this Upanishad is called "Isavasya  Upanishad" by borrowing the opening word from the text.




The thought flow in the 'Isavasyopanishad' gallops on to ots vivid goal in seven distinct waves.

Because of the brevity of the expressions, which are made to convey an entire philosophy at once sublime in thought, divine in concept, and scientific in treatment, to a hasty reader the 'Isavasyopanishad' should be confusing medley of rambling thoughts and, perhaps, would seem to contain only some wrecked, half expressed ideas.




This conclusion has become very familiar especially with alien commentators because each new adventurer, reaching the portals of this scripture, gets himself all the more confused because some of the expressions used in the Upanishad, though looking familiar, bear in themselves special significances and particular connotations in the context of the Mantram-s.    

To be continued ....