Tradition route
Read stories commonly grouped under this tradition lens.
5 stories in this route
Kena Upanishad
The gods had just won a great battle and were celebrating their own power — when Brahman appeared as a mysterious spirit, and not one of the gods could move a single blade of grass before it. Only Uma, the goddess, recognized what they had encountered.
Kena Upanishad
The Kena Upanishad opens with a series of paradoxes so precise they function as a trap for ordinary thinking: Brahman is not what you see, hear, or think — it is that by which you see, hear, and think.
Chandogya Upanishad
In a series of nine conversations, a father teaches his son the single most radical idea in Upanishadic thought: the deepest reality of the universe and the deepest self of the individual are not two different things.
Bhagavad Gita
After nine chapters of teaching, Arjuna asks to see Krishna's true form — and is immediately overwhelmed by a vision so vast and terrifying that he begs Krishna to stop and return to being human.
Bhagavad Gita
Arjuna has dropped his bow in the middle of a battlefield, unwilling to kill his kinsmen. Krishna, his charioteer, responds with one of the most radical teachings in world philosophy: the self you think you are protecting is not the self that can be harmed.
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