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Shvetashvatara Upanishad

Svetasvataropanisad

Shvetashvatara Upanishad recasts Brahman as a personal supreme deity identified with Rudra, fusing emerging Samkhya vocabulary of primal matter and self with devotional theism in a way later readers treat as an important bridge toward the Bhagavad Gita's theistic synthesis.

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