The Upanishads comprise the knowledge portion of the Vedas, the oldest extant religious texts on earth. As such, they represent the richest distillation of the larger corpus.
The word Upanishad itself can be roughly approximated to mean "sitting near the truth" - evoking an image of listening to the oral transmission of teachings at the feet of a person of steady wisdom. And Isha is a term here used not liturgically, but philosophically: having a dual meaning of both Lord, and Self.
These texts are meant to rouse us from slumber and into the wakeful radiance of what's really going on here. To recognize "The Self in all beings, and all beings in the Self." and allowing sorrow itself to melt away.
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