Read 12 Upanishads in English

Choose one of 12 source-linked Upanishad works. Read Max Müller’s public-domain English translations by section, without JavaScript.

• Isha Upanishad — 1 sections. A short poetic Upanishad on renunciation, action, knowledge, and seeing the Self in all beings.
• Kena Upanishad — 4 sections. A compact Upanishad asking what powers speech, mind, sight, and hearing, then answering through Brahman.
• Katha Upanishad — 6 sections. A poetic dialogue in which Nachiketa questions Yama about death, the Self, and immortality.
• Prashna Upanishad — 6 sections. A question-and-answer Upanishad where students ask about creation, breath, waking, Om, and the person.
• Mundaka Upanishad — 6 sections. A mantra Upanishad teaching higher knowledge, the limits of ritual, Om meditation, and liberation.
• Taittiriya Upanishad — 31 sections. A layered Upanishad with teaching on study, conduct, Brahman, and the sheaths of being.
• Aitareya Aranyaka and Upanishad — 59 sections. A Rigvedic forest text containing the Aitareya Upanishad material on the Self, creation, and consciousness.
• Chandogya Upanishad — 154 sections. A large prose Upanishad known for teachings such as Tat tvam asi, the identity of the Self with ultimate reality.
• Brihadaranyaka Upanishad — 46 sections. One of the oldest and largest Upanishads, including dialogues of Yajnavalkya, Maitreyi, and Gargi.
• Svetasvatara Upanishad — 6 sections. A poetic Upanishad on the cause of the universe, meditation, the Self, and devotion to the divine.
• Kaushitaki Upanishad — 4 sections. A prose Upanishad centered on life-force, knowledge, and the path beyond repeated birth.
• Maitri Upanishad — 7 sections. A later principal Upanishad on the Self, the mind, time, meditation, and release.