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The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (Sanskrit: ?????????????????, IAST: B?had?ra?yakopani?ad) is one of the Principal Upanishads and one of the first Upanishadic scriptures of Hinduism. A key scripture to various schools of Hinduism, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is tenth in the Muktik? or "canon of 108 Upanishads".Brihadaranyaka literally means "great wilderness or forest". The Upanishad forms the last part, that is the fourteenth k?nda of ?atapatha Br?hmana of "?hukla Yajurveda". The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad has six adhyayas (chapters) in total. It includes three sections: Madhu k?nda (the 4th and 5th chapter of the fourteenth k?nda of Satapatha Brahmana), Muni k?nda (or Yajnavalkya Kanda, the 6th and 7th chapter of 14th k?nda of Satapatha Brahmana) and Khila k?nda (the 8th and 9th chapter of the fourteenth k?nda of Satapatha Brahmana).The first and second chapters of the Upanishad's Madhu k?nda consists of six brahmanas each, with varying number of hymns per brahmana. The first chapter of the Upanishad's Yajnavalkya k?nda consists of nine brahmanams, while the second has six brahmanas. The Khila k?nda of the Upanishad has fifteen brahmanas in its first chapter, and five brahmanas in the second chapter.In the fourth brahmana of the Second chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Yajnavalkya and his wife Maitreyi engage in a dialogue about love and spirituality. Yajnavalkya states that one doesn't connect with and love forms, nor does one connect or love mind, rather one connects with the Self, the Self of one's own and one's beloved. All love is for the sake of one's Self, and the Oneness one realizes in the Self of the beloved. He then asserts that this knowledge of the Self, the Self, and Brahman is what makes one immortal, and the connection is also immortal. All longing is the longing for the Self, as the Self represents the true, the immortal, the real, and infinite bliss.Reference material:Book: https://a.co/d/iQqKCWMPDF of the entire Upanishad can be found
