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Principal Upanishads

  1. Kena

  2. Katha

  3. Prasna

  4. Taittiriya

  5. Mundaka

  6. Aitareya

  7. Isavasya

  8. Maitrayani

  9. Mandukya

  10. Chandogya

  11. Svetasvatara

  12. Brihadaranyaka

  13. Kaushitaki-Brahmana
     

Minor Upanishads

  1. Sita

  2. Atma

  3. Maha

  4. Akshi

  5. Aruni

  6. Surya

  7. Jabala

  8. Savitri

  9. Subala

  10. Varaha

  11. Garbha

  12. Skanda
     

  13. Tripura

  14. Brahma

  15. Kundika

  16. Muktika

  17. Nirvana

  18. Mudgala

  19. Kaivalya

  20. Paingala

  21. Sariraka

  22. Mantrika

  23. Maitreya

  24. Sannyasa
     

  25. Avadhuta

  26. Bahvricha

  27. Niralamba

  28. Bhikshuka

  29. Adhyatma

  30. Tejo-Bindu

  31. Annapurna

  32. Katharudra

  33. Sarva-Sara

  34. Nada-Bindu

  35. Yajnavalkya
     

  36. Atma-Bodha

  37. Satyayaniya

  38. Vajrasuchika

  39. Yoga-Tattva

  40. Amrita-Bindu

  41. Para-Brahma

  42. Paramahamsa

  43. Kali-Santarana

  44. Maha-Narayana

  45. Narada-Parivrajaka

  46. Turiyatita-Avadhuta

  47. Paramahamsa-Parivrajaka

Tripura Upanishad

Om ! Speech is rooted in my thought (mind) and my thought is rooted in my speech. Be manifest, patent, to me; be ye two, for me, the lynch-pins of the Veda. Let not Vedic lore desert me. With this mastered lore, I join day with night. I shall speak what is right; I shall speak what is true. Let that protect me; let that protect the speaker. Let that protect me. Let that protect the speaker, protect the speaker !
   Om ! Peace ! Peace ! Peace !

   1. Three cities are there, and pathways three for all.
   (On the dais of Fortune) are letters a, ka, tha and others.
   In them there dwells, never-ageing, ancient,
   The exceeding grandeur of the gods.

   2. Subject to Her whose sources are nine
   Shine forth the centres nine and Yogas nine,
   Nine deities and regents of the planets nine,
   Gentle healing deities nine and gestures nine.

   3. The One she was, the Foremost;
   She was the nine, the nineteen and the twenty-nine;
   The forty, she; may the radiant energies three,
   As fond mother’s love, encircle me.

   4. In the beginning was upblazing Light;
   Gloom and Motion stretched athwart the Ageless;
   The Moonlight gladness and delights; these spheres
   Adorn indeed (the knowers of Brahman).

   5. Of the three lines, abodes, three worlds and three spheres
   With triple constituents (She is the prop).
   This group of three among the sheaths is prime.
   In diagram drawn with mystic words
   The God of Love with Fortune’s Goddess dwells.

   6. The Exhilarating and the Proud,
   The Auspicious, the Lucky and the Lovely,
   The Perfected, the shy, the Witty One,
   The Gratified, the chosen and the Full,
   The Wealthy, the Forbidden, the Graceful,
   The Eloquent – (These on Consciousness do wait).

   7. Attended thus the Power of Consciousness
   Is drunk with the draught of Immortality;
   Knowing Her and worshipping Her throne
   (Her devotees) on heaven’s great vault do dwell
   And enter the supreme Triple City.

   8. Desire, the womb, the Digit of Desire,
   The Wielder of the Thunderbolt, the Cave,
   Ha sa, the Wind, the Cloud, the King of Heaven,
   Yet again the Cave, sa ka la and maya –
   Such is the primeval Wisdom, embracing all,
   Mother of the vast universe.

   9. Uttering in secret Her three basic letters –
   The sixth, the seventh and the eighth –
   Lauding the Lord, the theme of the Upanishads,
   The Seer, the Fashioner, the Free to Will,
   (Seekers) achieve the state of Immortality.

   10. The Mother of the Universe sustains
   Her abode – the Destroyer’s Face, the Circle of the Sun,
   The core of sounds, the span of time,
   The Eternal, half the lunar month;
   With sixteen (She sustains the core of their abode).

   11. Or, worshipping the digit of desire in its manifold forms,
   Enthroned in the three cavernous homes and in symbols
   Of the rounded breasts and face set in the spheres,
   The man of desires gains that which he wants.

   12. Dressed fish, goat’s flesh,
   Cooked rice, pleasure of sex,
   Who offers to the Goddess great,
   Merit and success for himself achieves.

   13. With (Sarasvati) fair and (Lakshmi), World’s Mother,
   (Gauri), roseate, primeval Power, withdrawer of the world,
   Binds with noose creatures who grasp, and tread
   Attachment’s path; and swiftly smites with bow and arrows five.

   14-15. The Power of Consciousness and desire’s Lord,
   Lord of auspicious powers, coequals both,
   Of equal prowess, in energy equal,
   Grant gifts to the fortunate here.
   Of the two, the un-ageing Power, the world’s womb,
   With offering of knowledge pleased,
   Removes the aspirant’s twofold sheath.
   With mind averted from illusion’s sphere
   He becomes Creator, Protector,
   Withdrawer of the world;
   Nay, one with Cosmic Being.    16. This is Tripura’s great Upanishad,
   Imperishable, which, in glorious words
   The Rig, Yajus, Saman and Atharvan
   And other forms of knowledge laud.
 

Om, Hrim, Om, Hrim – thus ends the secret doctrine.

Om ! Speech is rooted in my thought (mind) and my thought is rooted in my speech. Be manifest, patent, to me; be ye two, for me, the lynch-pins of the Veda. Let not Vedic lore desert me. With this mastered lore, I join day with night. I shall speak what is right; I shall speak what is true. Let that protect me; let that protect the speaker. Let that protect me. Let that protect the speaker, protect the speaker ! Om ! Peace ! Peace ! Peace !

Here ends the Tripura Upanishad, included in the Rig-Veda.

Translated by Dr. A. G. Krishna Warrier
Published by The Theosophical Publishing House, Chennai