The Upanishads: quién es quién, cronología y lugares

The teaching asks people to perceive the Lord throughout the universe and avoid coveting another person's wealth.

A person sees every being within the Self and the Self within every being.

Knowledge of the invisible cause and its destructible manifestation provides a path beyond death to immortality.

Nachiketas judges that the worthless cows his father offers in sacrifice bring no merit.

Yama offers his guest three boons after three nights in his house without food.

Yama teaches Nachiketas the fire-sacrifice, explaining the bricks and their arrangement for the altar.

Nachiketas asks whether a person exists after death as his third boon.

Nachiketas refuses the offered pleasures because they pass quickly and weaken the senses.

Yama distinguishes the good from the pleasant and explains that each leads to a different end.

Yama names Aum as the goal praised by the Vedas and sought through austerity, continence, and service.

The teaching compares the Self to the lord of a chariot and the body to the vehicle.

Yama directs a wise person to bring speech, mind, and intellect under successively higher control.

A wise person turns inward toward the Atman instead of following the senses outward.

The body is described as a city with eleven gates ruled by the unborn Self.

The sun illustrates how the inner Self remains untouched by worldly misery.

Yoga is defined as firm restraint of the senses and union between the lower and Higher Self.

Nachiketas attains Brahman through the wisdom and Yoga taught by the Ruler of Death.

A disciple asks the Master what directs the mind, life-force, speech, and senses.

The teacher warns that hearing about Brahman and feeling intellectually certain do not amount to true knowledge.

Brahman wins a victory for the Devas, but they claim the achievement as their own.

Agni cannot burn the straw Brahman places before him.

Vayu cannot blow away the straw Brahman places before him.

Uma tells Indra that Brahman is the mysterious form and the true source of the Devas' victory.

Knowledge of the Upanishad cleanses a person of sin and establishes that person in Brahman's eternal, blissful dwelling.