By Eknath Easwaran
ISBN-10: 1586380257
ISBN-13: 9781586380250
One of the oldest of India’s non secular texts, the Upanishads are files of in depth question-and-answer classes given through illumined sages to their scholars. broadly featured in philosophy classes, the Upanishads have questioned and encouraged knowledge seekers from Yeats to Schopenhauer. Eknath Easwaran makes this not easy textual content extra available by way of settling on the passages so much proper to readers looking undying truths at the present time. His available, hugely readable translation and vigorous foreword position the lessons in a modern context for college students and normal readers alike.
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They are India’s most precious legacy to humanity, and in that spirit they are offered here. 47 ╯ ╭ t h e u pa n i s h a d s ╯ Translated by Eknath Easwaran Chapter Introductions & Afterword by Michael N. Nagler ╭ Isha Upanishad The Self is everywhere. Bright is the Self, Indivisible, untouched by sin, wise, Immanent and transcendent. He it is Who holds the cosmos together. ” With these words Mahatma Gandhi paid tribute to the remarkable Upanishad that traditionally stands at the beginning of most Indian collections.
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. 5) In the end, all achievement is powered by desire. Each of us has millions of desires, from big to trivial, packed with a certain measure of will to get that desire fulfilled. Imagine how much power is latent in the human personality! With just a fraction of that potential, young Alexander conquered continents, Rutan and Yaeger flew Voyager around the world, Ein- 33 ╯ ╭ introduction stein penetrated the heart of the universe.
Bright is the Self, Indivisible, untouched by sin, wise, Immanent and transcendent. He it is Who holds the cosmos together. 9–11 In dark night live those for whom The world without alone is real; in night Darker still, for whom the world within Alone is real. The first leads to a life Of action, the second to a life of meditation. But those who combine action with meditation Cross the sea of death through action And enter into immortality Through the practice of meditation. So have we heard from the wise.
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