Maitri Upanishad

Maitrayaniyopanisad

Anonymous / tradition · c. 200 BC - AD 100 · North India (exact location uncertain) (India) · philosophy

Among the latest and most composite of the classical Upanishads, Maitri Upanishad weaves in explicit Samkhya-Yoga vocabulary and a notably pessimistic meditation on the body's impermanence, reflecting centuries of accretion after the earliest prose Upanishads had already closed.