Paul Deussen and Winternitz, hold a similar view as that of Phillips, but place Taittiriya before Isha Upanishad, but after Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and Chandogya Upanishad.Īccording to a 1998 review by Patrick Olivelle, the Taittiriya Upanishad was composed in a pre-Buddhist period, possibly 6th to 5th century BCE. Ranade shares the view of Phillips in chronologically sequencing Taittiriya Upanishad with respect to other Upanishads. Stephen Phillips suggests that Taittiriya Upanishad was likely one of the early Upanishads, composed in the 1st half of 1st millennium BCE, after Brihadaranyaka, Chandogya, and Isha, but before Aitareya, Kaushitaki, Kena, Katha, Manduka, Prasna, Svetasvatara and Maitri Upanishads, as well as before the earliest Buddhist Pali and Jaina canons. All opinions rest on scanty evidence, assumptions about likely evolution of ideas, and on presumptions about which philosophy might have influenced which other Indian philosophies. The chronology of Taittiriya Upanishad, along with other Vedic era literature, is unclear. Paul Deussen states that this symbolic terminology is apt and likely reflects the root and nature of the Taittiriya Upanishad, which too is largely independent of the liturgical Yajur Veda, and is attached to the main text. Įach chapter of the Taittiriya Upanishad is called a Valli (वल्ली), which literally means a medicinal vine-like climbing plant that grows independently yet is attached to a main tree. The later root of the title comes from the nature of Taittriya Upanishad which, like the rest of "dark or black Yajur Veda", is a motley, confusing collection of unrelated but individually meaningful verses. The root of this name has been interpreted in two ways: "from Vedic sage Tittiri", who was the student of Yāska or alternatively, it being a collection of verses from mythical students who became " partridges" (birds) in order to gain knowledge. Taittiriya is a Sanskrit word that means "from Tittiri". 4.2.5 Anandamaya - Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Anuvāka.4.2.1 Annamaya - First and Second Anuvāka.4.1.9 Graduating student's acknowledgment - Twelfth Anuvāka.4.1.8 Convocation address to graduating students, living ethically - Eleventh Anuvāka.4.1.6 Ethical duties of human beings - Ninth Anuvāka.4.1.5 Parallelism in knowledge and what is Om - Seventh and Eighth Anuvāka.4.1.4 A theory of Oneness and holy exclamations - Fifth and Sixth Anuvāka.4.1.3 A teacher's prayer - Fourth Anuvāka.4.1.2 Phonetics and the theory of connecting links - Second and Third Anuvāka.4.1.1 A student's promise - First Anuvāka.The Upanishad includes verses that are partly prayers and benedictions, partly instruction on phonetics and praxis, partly advice on ethics and morals given to graduating students from ancient Vedic gurukula-s (schools), partly a treatise on allegory, and partly philosophical instruction. This Upanishad is classified as part of the "black" Yajurveda, with the term "black" implying "the un-arranged, motley collection" of verses in Yajurveda, in contrast to the "white" (well arranged) Yajurveda where Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and Isha Upanishad are embedded. The Taittirīya Upanishad is the seventh, eighth and ninth chapters of Taittirīya Āraṇyaka, which are also called, respectively, the Śikṣāvallī, the Ānandavallī and the Bhṛguvallī. It lists as number 7 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads. The Taittirīya Upanishad is associated with the Taittirīya school of the Yajurveda, attributed to the pupils of sage Vaishampayana. It is a mukhya (primary, principal) Upanishad, and likely composed about 6th century BC. Not only according to modern scientific terminology, but also in the ancient thought of the Agama and Tantra, one may say that the concept of space-time goes together with motion, force.The Taittirīya Upanishad ( Devanagari: तैत्तिरीय उपनिषद्) is a Vedic era Sanskrit text, embedded as three chapters ( adhyāya) of the Yajurveda. #Space and time are not dead things they are basic vibrations of the cosmos. #This is what we may think with our paltry, inadequate knowledge of what space and time are. #Time also seems to be some kind of movement which has no brain to think it is like a machine moving like a bulldozer in some direction. #For us, to our common perception, spatial extension may look like a lifeless dimension which does not speak, which does not think, which has nothing to say. #Actually, according to modern findings at least, space and time are not dead appearances, lifeless presentations before us. #The moment there is the concept of space, there is also automatically introduced into it the concept of time.