General theme of the Upnishads..

General theme of the Upnishads..

The main theme of the upnishads is to God (brahm) and receive liberation from the bondage of maya (the cosmic power or the material power) and enter into the eteral state of the Divine Bliss.
The Brihadaranyak upnishad saya that there are mainly thirty-three gods who are important in the celestial world in terms of the performance of vedic rituals and the yagyas.other celestial gods are affiliates to them. They are eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Adityas (forms of sungod), god Indra and god Prajapati.

General definition of soul, maya and God.

Soul- are unlimited in number infintesimal (anu) in size, initially Divine in quality but eternally blemished by maya,so that are eternally bound by there Karms hich are unlimited in quantity. They are part of the Divine power called jeev shakti which is affiliated to chit shakti of god. These are the souls that are under the bondage of maya. All of the souls have a chance to realize God if they follow the guidelines of selfless devotion (bhakti) to god. There are also unlimited number of such souls that are beyond the bondage of maya.

Maya is a single limitless and lifeless power of God it has three qualities, sattva (pious), raj (selfish) and tam (evil) that represent its existence when it is evolved the form of the universe. In the state of absolute dissolution of the universe, maya stays in God in absolutely dormant form along with the souls that are under its bondage.

God. Eternal omnipresent, all-blissful, all-kind and all-loving Divine personality is God. His prime forms are: nirakar (formless aspect of god), Vishnu, Shiv, Durga, Ram and Krishn. Nirakar is established in the personal form of god and all the personalforms of God are established in the personality of krishn. who revels the richest and most intimate form of the Divine Bliss, So He is called the suprme personality of god (poornatam purushottam)..