AUTHOR: Ovidiu Cristian NEDU TAITTIRIYA-UPANISAD (ANNOTATED TRANSLATION) Danubius, XXXIV, Galaţi, 2016, pp. 321-376. Abstract Taittiriya-Upanisad is one of the oldest Upanisads, belonging to the branch of the Black Yajur-Veda. The text interlaces the ancient cosmological and dynamic approach to reality, of Vedic influence, with more recent ontological and substantial approaches. Whether cosmological or ontological, all…

AUTHOR: Ovidiu Cristian NEDU KNOWLEDGE (JÑĀNA) VERSUS DEEDS (KARMAN). MUNDAKA-UPANISAD. (ANNOTATED TRANSLATION) Danubius, XXXV, Galaţi, 2017, p. 321-376. Abstract Mundaka-Upanisad is one of the oldest Upanisads and also one of the classical Brahmanic texts dealing with the ultimate reality (Brahman) and its relation to the Universe. Its ontological approach considers the reality as unique, as…

AUTHOR: Ovidiu Cristian NEDU REJECTION OF THE NATURAL AND TRANSCENDENT SALVATION, IN BRAHMANISM. MAITREYA-UPANISAD AND JĀBĀLA-UPANISAD (ANNOTATED TRANSLATIONS) Danubius, XXXVI, Galaţi, 2018, p. 301-346. Abstract The existential and religious attitude of classical Brahmanism has always been utterly anti-naturalistic; those philosophers looked down at all human conditions and accomplishments. Consequently, they put forward renunciation, ascesis, the…

AUTHOR: Ovidiu Cristian NEDU THE PULSATORY PLAY OF REALITY. BEWILDERMENT AND SELF-REDISCOVERY IN MĀNDUKYA AND KAIVALYA-UPANISAD Danubius, XXXVII, Galaţi, 2019, pp. 331-380. Abstract For Advaita Vedānta, the classical philosophy of Brahmanism, both bondage, human drama and liberation, religious practice, are not conditions or processes undergone by some alleged ”human beings” but rather conditions, phenomena incurred…