Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, one of the oldest and most important Principal Upanishads of Hinduism, belongs to the Śukla Yajurveda and forms the concluding portion of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa. Literally meaning “the great forest,” it consists of six chapters arranged into three sections—Madhu, Yājñavalkya (Muni), and Khila kāṇḍas—and is tenth in the traditional canon of 108 Upanishads. In this series, Swami Sarvapriyananda takes up section 2.4 of the Upanishad which is the celebrated dialogue between Yājñavalkya and his wife Maitreyi, where love is revealed as ultimately directed toward the Self (Ātman), whose realization as identical with Brahman leads to immortality and infinite bliss.