"Upanishads as pedagogical devices for peaceful co-existence" Madhavi Narsalay Pedagogy is the study and practice of how best one can teach. While reading the Upaniṣads, one realises that they build up a new discourse in the field of teaching the individual aspirant, who is the micro-unit of the society to lead a peaceful and harmonious life. The paper will undertake a textual reading of the Upaniṣads and attempt to locate the type of teaching and learning process employed by them. Teaching in the past and present set up has been a triangular process which includes: 1) Presenting the educative apparatus to the students; the apparatus may be concrete, abstract or verbal 2) The teacher is guides the student in his/her mental and physical activities 3) Provision of emotional training and mental health along with encouraging and developing mental and physical activities If the Upaniṣads are read on the basis of the trifocal process, a well-developed pedagogical system emerges from them. In the process of understanding peaceful co-existence, both on the esoteric and exoteric level, the aspirant has to understand Reality at its micro level and macro level. Heuristic method: We observe in the Upanisads that the sadhaka or the aspires to know the Ultimate Truth and he or she himself or herself approaches the teacher. For eg, in the Taittiriya Upanishad we have Bhrgu who approaches his father Varuna to teach him Brahman. Varuna generates the spirit of enquiry in him in gradual stages. In this section of the Upanishad Varuna has asked his son to concentrate all his energies towards the inquiry of various sheaths that