The Upanishads

Informationen zum Autor Chapter introductions, notes, and the essay "Reading the Upanishads" are by Michael N. Nagler, PhD, who is professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Among the oldest of India's spiritual texts, the Upanishads are records of intensive question-and-answer sessions given by illumined sages to their students. Widely featured in philosophy courses, the Upanishads have puzzled and inspired wisdom seekers from Yeats to Schopenhauer. Eknath Easwaran makes this challenging text more accessible by selecting the passages most relevant to readers seeking timeless truths today. His accessible, highly readable translation and lively foreword place the teachings in a contemporary context for students and general readers alike. Zusammenfassung Easwaran's best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound. In the Upanishads, illumined sages share flashes of insight, the results of their investigation into consciousness itself. In extraordinary visions, they experience directly a transcendent Reality which is the essence, or Self, of each created being. They teach that each of us, each Self, is eternal, deathless, one with the power that created the universe. Easwaran's best-selling translation of selections taken from the principal Upanishads and five others is reliable and accessible. It includes an overview of the cultural and historical setting, with chapter introductions, notes, and a Sanskrit glossary. But it is Easwaran's understanding of the wisdom of the Upanishads, and their relevance to the modern reader, that makes this edition truly outstanding. Each sage, each Upanishad, appeals in different ways to the reader's head and heart. As Easwaran writes, The Upanishads belong not just to Hinduism. They are India's most precious legacy to humanity, and in that spirit they are offered here. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Foreword 7 Introduction 13 ISHA 51 The Inner Ruler KATHA 61 Death as Teacher BRIHADARANYAKA 93 The Forest of Wisdom CHANDOGYA 119 SacredSong SHVETASHVATARA 153 The Faces of God MUNDAKA 179 Modes of Knowing MANDUKYA 197 Consciousness& Its Phases KENA 207 WhoMoves the World? PRASHNA 219 The Breathof Life TAITTIRIYA 239 Ascentto Joy AITAREYA 263

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Chapter introductions, notes, and the essay "Reading the Upanishads" are by Michael N. Nagler, PhD, who is professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Klappentext

Among the oldest of India's spiritual texts, the Upanishads are records of intensive question-and-answer sessions given by illumined sages to their students. Widely featured in philosophy courses, the Upanishads have puzzled and inspired wisdom seekers from Yeats to Schopenhauer. Eknath Easwaran makes this challenging text more accessible by selecting the passages most relevant to readers seeking timeless truths today. His accessible, highly readable translation and lively foreword place the teachings in a contemporary context for students and general readers alike.

Zusammenfassung

Easwaran’s best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound.

In the Upanishads, illumined sages share flashes of insight, the results of their investigation into consciousness itself.

In extraordinary visions, they experience directly a transcendent Reality which is the essence, or Self, of each created being. They teach that each of us, each Self, is eternal, deathless, one with the power that created the universe.

Easwaran’s best-selling translation of selections taken from the principal Upanishads and five others is reliable and accessible. It includes an overview of the cultural and historical setting, with chapter introductions, notes, and a Sanskrit glossary. But it is Easwaran’s understanding of the wisdom of the Upanishads, and their relevance to the modern reader, that makes this edition truly outstanding.

Each sage, each Upanishad, appeals in different ways to the reader’s head and heart. As Easwaran writes, “The Upanishads belong not just to Hinduism. They are India’s most precious legacy to humanity, and in that spirit they are offered here.”

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 Table of Contents 

 Foreword 7 

 Introduction 13 

 ISHA 51 

      The Inner Ruler 

 KATHA 61 

      Death as Teacher 

 BRIHADARANYAKA 93 

      The Forest of Wisdom 

 CHANDOGYA 119 

      Sacred
Song 

 SHVETASHVATARA 153 

      The Faces of God 

 MUNDAKA 179 

      Modes of Knowing 

 MANDUKYA 197 

      Consciousness
& Its Phases 

 KENA 207 

      Who
Moves the World? 

 PRASHNA 219 

      The Breath
of Life 

 TAITTIRIYA 239 

      Ascent
to Joy 

 AITAREYA 263 

      The
Unity of Life 

 MINOR UPANISHADS  Beads of Wisdom 

      TEJOBINDU 283 

      ATMA 286 

      AMRITABINDU
288 

      PARAMAHAMSA 291 

 Afterword 295 

     A Religion
for Modern Times 

     by Michael N. Nagler 

 Glossary 337 

 Notes 345 

 Index
377