/lit/ - Literature

>>16878645
Yes, they are. Try picking up any book on the Vedas or spend 5 minutes on google and you’ll see that I’m right. The primary Upanishads are interspersed throughout the Vedas in different layers. It’s funny to me that you would throw a fit about people not reading the Puranas while not even knowing that the Upanishads are a part of the Vedas.

> Each Veda has been subclassified into four major text types – the Samhitas (mantras and benedictions), the Aranyakas (text on rituals, ceremonies such as newborn baby's rites of passage, coming of age, marriages, retirement and cremation, sacrifices and symbolic sacrifices), the Brahmanas (commentaries on rituals, ceremonies and sacrifices), and the Upanishads (text discussing meditation, philosophy and spiritual knowledge).[7][9][10] The Upasanas (short ritual worship-related sections) are considered by some scholars[11][12] as the fifth part