The continuities of this work with works of Pythagoras and Plato are examined in an essay by Sri Aurobindo.
The continuities of this work with works of Pythagoras and Plato are examined in an essay by Sri Aurobindo. This work examines the difference between a tree being physically stricken and life leaving one of its branches in a section about truth and soul. That portion of this work originated a term for "vital life" and contains a dialogue in which the third of the Four Great Sayings, Tat Tvam Asi, is uttered. The states of waking and sleeping and a powerful analogy in which a target, an arrow, and the bow that releases it are respectively God, the soul, and the chanted (*) syllable Aum are discussed in the Mandukya one, the shortest of these works whose 10 mukhya, or primary, subdivisions contains the Aitareya and Chandogya. The oldest canonical portions of these texts were composed before the advent of Buddhism in India. For 10 points, identify these philosophical texts of Hinduism.
The continuities of this work with works of Pythagoras and Plato are examined in an essay by Sri Aurobindo.
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