(Anirvan Upanisad Series, no.6)

Based on the Talks in Bangla By

Original Text in Sanskrit with Transliteration,

English Translation and Commentary by

The Tairiya Upanisad, associated with the Tairiya school of the Yajurveda, is a Vedic Sanskrit text. It is generally believed that its authorship is due to the pupils of Sage Vaisampayana.

The contents of this Upanisad includes prayers and benedicons, instrucon on phonecs and praxis, advice on ethics and morals given to graduang students of ancient Vedic Gurukulas along with philosophical instrucons.

The present book is a compilaon of talks on the Tairiya Upanisad by Sri Anirvan at Dharmasabha, Kolkata during 6 February 1965 to 10 July 1965. Sri Anirvan has talked about peace invocaons, science of phonecs, Brahman the bliss and the enlightenment of Bhrgu as the focus of his discourses.

Inevitably, this book approaches the contents of a Vedic text keeping in mind the need of a modern-day knowledge seeker.

Shri Anirvan was born on 8 July 1896 in the town of Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). At the age of eleven he learnt the Aast­adhyayi of Panini by heart and daily recited a chapter from the Bhagavadgita. He got college educaon in Dhaka and Calcua. Aer compleng his studies, Shri Anirvan took samnyasa and became Nirvanananda Saraswa. A few years later, he dropped the ochre robes and changed his name to Anirvan, by which he became known to the literary world.

Between 1930 and 1942, he lived with friends at Allahabad, Lucknow, Delhi and Ranchi. Later on, he moved to Lohaghat in Almora where Madame Lizelle Reymond, a Swiss lady and spiritual seeker, joined him and literally took him to the West through her books. Shri Anirvan moved to Shillong in Assam and finally to Calcua in 1965. He fell ill in July 1971 and passed away on 31 May 1978 at the age of 82.

His first book was a Bengali translaon of Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine which was published in 2 volumes during 1948-51. But the centre of his studies was the Vedas on which he acquired a rare mastery over the years. His great work, Veda Mimamsa, in Bengali was published in 3 volumes in 1961, 1965 and 1970. Meanwhile, several other works on Upanisads, the Gita, Vedanta and Yoga were written by him in Bengali and later on translated into English and Hindi.