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The Kena Upanishad
"By whom?" — the Brahman as the unseen power behind every faculty: speech, sight, hearing, mind. The Brahman that cannot be objectified.
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- Tradition
- Śruti. Belongs to the Talavakāra Brāhmaṇa of the Sama Veda. One of the more poetic of the principal Upanishads.
- Translation
- F. Max Müller, *The Upanishads*, Sacred Books of the East, vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879) and vol. 15 (1884). Public domain.
- License
- Public domain (pre-1929 English translation). Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.