Hinduism - Notes

1. In R.E. Hume, The Thirteen Principal Upanishads (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954), 272. "CE" refers to the Christian (or Common) Era, instead of the specifically Christian "AD."

2. In K. Narayanasvami Aiyar, Thirty Minor Upanishads (Madras, n.p., 1914), 272.

3. In Patrick Olivelle, Samnyasa Upanishads (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 225.

4. Aiyar, Thirty Minor Upanishads, 41.

5. Aiyar, 32.

6. Sandilya Upanishad, in Aiyar, 183.

7. Mandalabrahman Upanishad, in Aiyar, 247.

8. Naradaparivrajaka Upanishad, in Olivelle, Samnyasa Upanishads, 219.

9. Hume, 425.

10. Maitri Upanishad, in Hume, 435 & 443.

11. Vicharabindu Upanishad, in Swami Sivananda, Ten Upanishads (P.O. Shivanandanagar: The Divine Life Society, 1973), 68, 203 & 226.

12. Katha Upanishad, in T.M.P. Mahadevan, Upanishads (Arnold-Heinemann Publishers, 1975), 70.

13. Sivananda, 148.

14. Ninian Smart, The Religious Experience of Mankind, 2nd ed. (N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976), 131. Since Hindus have traditionally conceived of time as cyclical, it is not always easy to pin down exact historical dates.

15. The Bhagavad Gita, trans. by Winthrop Sergeant (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1984), 464.

16. Gita, 601.

17. Gita, 723.

18. Gita, 244.

19. Gita, 298-299.

20. Gita, 471, 482.

21. Mahadevan, Upanishads, 159.

22. Sarvasara Upanishad, in Aiyar, 10.

23. Tejobindu Upanishad, in Aiyar, 87, 93.

24. Mandalabrahman Upanishad, in Aiyar, 251.

25. Aiyar, 252, 256.

26. Katha Upanishad, in Hume, 358.

27. Mundaka Upanishad, in Hume, 373.

28. Mahadevan, 205.

29. R. B. S. Vidyarnava, Studies in the Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana (Allahabad: published by the Panini Office, Bhuvaneswari Asram, 1919), 14.

30. Patanjali, Yoga Sutras, edited by Major B. D. Basu. Vol. 4 of The Sacred Books of the Hindus (Allahabad: from the Panini Office, Bhuvaneswari Asrama, 1912), 167.

31. Gita, 239.

32. In Vidyarnava, Studies in the Vedanta Sutras, 45.

33. Mundaka Upanishad, in Hume, 374.

34. Brihad Upanishad, in Hume, 132.

35. Subala Upanishad, in Aiyar,50.

36. Subala Upanishad, Aiyar, 62.

37. Svaroopabodha Upanishad, in Sivananda, 126.

38. Vicharbindu Upanishad, in Sivananda, 206.

39. Brahmarahasya Upanishad, in Sivanada, 149.

40. Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, in Mahadevan, 158.

41. Aiyar, 38.

42. Olivelle, 127.

43. Hume, 249.

44. Olivelle, 168.

45. Hume, 209.

46. Hume, 293.

47. Hume, 293.

48. Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad, in Hume, 103.

49. Subala Upanishad, in Aiyar, 71.

50. Kena Upanishad, in Mahadevan, 48.

51. Mahadevan, 148.

52. Aiyar, 30.

53. Olivelle, Samnyasa Upanishad, 160.

54. Gita, 544-545 & 589.

55. Mahadevan, 69.

56. "The Hatha Yoga Pradipika," Major B.D. Basu, ed. Vol. XV, Part II of The Sacred Books of the Hindus (Allahabad: from the Panini Office, Bhuvaneswari Asrama, 1912), 167.

57. "The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali," vol. IV of The Sacred Books of the Hindus, Maj. B.D. Basu, ed. (Allahabad: The Indian Press, 1912), 80.

58. "Yoga Sutras," 224.

59. "Yoga Sutras," 175.

60. Gita, 263, 286.

61. Anandabindu Upanishad, in Sivananda, Ten Upanishads, 269.

62. Naradaparivrajaka Upanishad, in Olivelle, Samnyasa Upanishads 226.

63. Yogakundalini Upanishad, in Aiyar, 272.

64. Maitreya Upanishad, in Aiyar, 64, 25.