弥呾丽夷
在奥义书中，她问，如果财富不能使她不死，那它有什么用——并由此得知，真我才是人应当追求的。
定位
《广林奥义书》称她为“论梵者”（brahmavadini）：耶若伏吉耶要给她财富，她却问何物能带来不死，并由此得到关于自我的教导。她是文本中的人物，其历史真实性尚无定论。
核心思想
- “不能使我不死的东西，我要它做什么？”
- 关于自我（阿特曼）的教导
- 对话作为奥义书教学的一种形式
老师: 耶若伏吉耶
影响
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耶若伏吉耶 师从
师从 后世传述
Known only from the Upanishadic narrative: in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (2.4, 4.5) Yajnavalkya instructs his wife Maitreyi on the self before he leaves home; outside these texts nothing is known of either. Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 2.4, 4.5, tr. P. Olivelle, Upaniṣads, 1996
依据: AI 草稿
耶若伏吉耶 › 相传 约公元前800—前720年年
立场
When Yajnavalkya decides to leave home for the life of a renouncer, he offers to divide his property between his wives. Maitreyi asks whether all the wealth of the earth would make her immortal. Told that it would not, she asks instead to be taught what he knows. Yajnavalkya then teaches her that husband, wife, children or wealth are dear not for their own sake but for the sake of the Self (Atman), which must be seen, heard and understood; where everything has become one Self, there is nothing other to know. The dialogue became a model of philosophical conversation and was later read as evidence that women took part in the highest Vedic learning.
生平与背景
Maitreyi is presented in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad as one of the two wives of Yajnavalkya; the text itself calls her “a discourser on Brahman”, unlike the other wife, Katyayani. The scene is told twice, in chapters two and four. Later Indian tradition honours her as a learned woman of the Vedic age. Like Gargi, she is known only from the text, and her historicity is uncertain.
主要作品
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.4 and 4.5 (the dialogue with Yajnavalkya; text c. 8th–6th century BCE)
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