Taittiriya Upanishad (With Sanskrit Text, Paraphrase with word-for-word Literal Translation, English Rendering and Comments)

Publisher: Madras: Ramakrishna Math
Publication date: 1921
Number of pages: 134The Upanishad has been so named because it forms a part of the Taittiriya Aranyaka of the Krishna Yayur Veda, raittiriya Aranyaka itself forms the latter part of the Taittiriya Branmana and this Upanishad constitutes the seventh, eighth and ninth prapathakas of the said Aranyaka.
The Taittiriya recension of the Krishna Yayur Veda got its nomenclature irom the tradition that when the 'great sags Yajnavalkya was asked by his offended' Guru to return back the Veda which the former had studied under him, Yajnavalkya threw it out, and other Rishis taking the forms of Titlins (partridges) swallowed the Veda thus thrown out.
This Upanishad is the most popular of all other smaller Upantshads, chiefly owing to the fact that ν is still chanted with proper swarams and intonations by Brahmins in all parts of India, which forms one of the main features of Hindu religious ceremonies. Moreover it speaks of the rules of conduct beginning from the student life up to the fourth Ashrama i.e., Sannyasa life, in well-ordered, graduated manner revealing the depth of significance of each stage and its final culmination into the next, till man reaches the sumiim bomtm of life, the Brahniancmdanu.