The Garbha Upaniṣad — The Womb, the Body, and the Birth of Consciousness

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Taught by Acharya T Krishnatrey

Vedic scholar. Founder of VidyāSetu.

Curriculum

परिचय · Introduction

The Garbha Upaniṣad — free to read (20 min)
Course Metadata (20 min)
What Is the Garbha Upaniṣad? (20 min)
An Upaniṣad About the Body (20 min)
The Five Sections at a Glance (20 min)
Pippalāda and the Dating of the Text (20 min)
The Opening Invocation — Śānti Mantra (20 min)
Checkpoint — Opening (20 min)

पञ्चभूतमय शरीर · The Fivefold Body (Section 1)

पञ्चभूतमय शरीर · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
The Fivefold Body (20 min)
The Body's Framework (Section 1) (20 min)
The Five Elements (Pañca-Mahābhūta) (20 min)
The Six Tastes — and the Seven Notes (20 min)
Checkpoint — The Fivefold Body (20 min)

सप्तधातु · The Seven Tissues (Section 2)

सप्तधातु · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
The Seven Tissues (20 min)
From Food to Seed: the Sapta-Dhātu (Section 2) (20 min)

गर्भविकास · Conception & Growth (Section 3)

गर्भविकास · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
Conception (20 min)
The Embryo Forms (20 min)
The Growth of the Embryo (20 min)
Month by Month (Section 3) (20 min)
When Life Enters (20 min)
The Jīva Joins (7th–8th Month) (20 min)
Checkpoint — Tissues, Conception, Growth (20 min)

गर्भचेतना एवं जन्म · The Womb & Birth (Section 4)

गर्भचेतना एवं जन्म · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
The Cry Within the Womb (20 min)
The Lament and the Vow (Section 4) (20 min)
Birth and Forgetting (20 min)
The Vow Is Lost (20 min)
Checkpoint — The Womb and Birth (20 min)

शरीराग्निः एवं मोक्षः · The Fires & Liberation (Section 5)

शरीराग्निः एवं मोक्षः · Chapter Overview — free to read (20 min)
Why "Śarīra"? The Three Fires (20 min)
The Fires and the Sacrifice (Section 5) (20 min)
The Numbers of the Body (20 min)
Anatomy in Numbers (20 min)
The Body Mirrors the Cosmos (20 min)
The Colophon — Pippalāda's Science of Liberation (20 min)
Checkpoint — The Fires and the Numbers (20 min)

उपसंहार · In the Wider World & Review

The Garbha Upaniṣad in the Wider World — free to read (20 min)
Capstone — Study the Body as the Text Does (20 min)
Course Glossary — the Garbha Lexicon (20 min)
The Womb, the Body, the Self (20 min)
About the Images in This Course (20 min)