A History of Indian Literature v1.c8.s8.81

v1.c8.s8.81

This should be borne in mind when a "philosophy of the Upaniṣads" or even a "system of the Upaniṣads" is spoken of. A philosophy of the Upaniṣads exists only in so far as, in these collections of all sorts of mysteries, the teachings of the philosophers were also included. (A system of the Upaniṣad philosophy can only be said to exist in a very restricted sense.³ For it is not the thoughts of one single philosopher or of one uniform *school* of philosophers, that might be traced back to one single teacher, which are before us in the Upaniṣads, but it is the teachings of various men,⁴ even of various periods, which are presented in the single sections of the Upaniṣads.)