The three points of departure
Taittirīya Upaniṣad
The five sheaths — food, breath, mind, intellect, joy — peeled one at a time, and a graduation address that still holds up.
c. 600–500 BCE
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- c. 600–500 BCE
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- The three points of departure
The method of successive elimination, laid out as a procedure rather than a doctrine.
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- Taittirīya Upaniṣad, word-by-word teaching — Swami Dayananda Saraswati The five sheaths and the definition of brahman as satyam jñānam anantam.
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