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The Upanishads

In Our Time: Religion

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What Are the Panishads?

Simon broadbeck: The panishads are part of the veders, which were professional handbooks for these families of priests. And i suppose they are largely about how knowledge works, because they are families who lived by knowledge. They lived by the power of their knowledge and their utterance and what they had learnt. In the opanishads we see not just a listing of what needs to be known, but reflections on the process of knowledge"

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