The Upanishads
Nilgiri Press (Verlag)
978-1-58638-021-2 (ISBN)
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 - in ashrams, at family gatherings, in a royal court, and in the kingdom of Death. The sages share flashes of insight, extraordinary visions, the results of their investigation into consciousness itself. The Upanishads have puzzled and inspired wisdom seekers from Yeats to Schopenhauer. In this best-selling translation, Eknath Easwaran makes these challenging texts more accessible by selecting the passages most relevant to readers seeking timeless truths today. This book 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 that makes this edition truly outstanding. Each sage, each Upanishad, appeals in a different way to the reader's head and heart. For Easwaran, the Upanishads are part of India's precious legacy, not just to Hinduism but to humanity, and in that spirit they are offered here.
Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999) brings to this volume a rare combination of credentials. Trained from a young age in one of the purest Sanskrit traditions in India, he had a deep intuitive knowledge of his own Hindu legacy. He also had a great love of Western literature and was chairman of the English department at a major Indian university when he came to the United States on a Fulbright fellowship in 1959. From the 1960s onwards, Easwaran held classes on mysticism and practical spirituality for a primarily American audience. A gifted teacher, he was able to anticipate the problems that Western readers may have with the concepts underlying the classics of Indian spirituality, and to explain them in fresh and profoundly simple ways. In 1961 Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in California, and in 1967, at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught the first academic course on meditation ever offered for credit at a major American university. He continued to teach passage meditation and his eight-point program for spiritual living to an American and international audience for almost forty years. His books on meditation and the classics of world mysticism have been translated into many languages. Easwaran drew on the Upanishads and the other Classics of Indian Spirituality throughout his life for deep inspiration. As Huston Smith writes, “it is impossible to get to the heart of those Classics unless you live them, and he did live them.” Through the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and its publishing arm, Nilgiri Press, Easwaran continues to reach an ever-growing audience around the world through publications and retreats.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.10.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Tomales |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 206 mm |
| Gewicht | 623 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus |
| ISBN-10 | 1-58638-021-4 / 1586380214 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-58638-021-2 / 9781586380212 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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