Our greatest need at the present time is, therefore, the dissemination of those noble teachings of our sacred scriptures which when reduced to practice can enrich human life and can, at the same time, make life thus enriched subservient to the achievement of social ends. It will, indeed, be strange, if the spirit of supreme wisdom of our Rishis which could at one time touch the deepest springs of human personality to such fine issues, should have lost its power of regenerating the present generations.
Let us then go back without any farther delay to our ancient and ever-fresh springs of spiritual vitality which have always been and can still be the best restoratives of our lost vigour.
The message of the Upanishads, as given in this article, is meant neither for scholars nor for philosophers. It is a book written by a layman for laymen.
The idea is simply to bring home to an average English knowing man and woman the importance and use of those principles of spiritual import which are indispensable both for daily worship and all round uplift. Thanks to the selfless and unremitting labours of Rishi Dayanand and other founders of modern Hindu religious movements, there is a noticeable and increasing interest everywhere in the study of classical religious literature of ancient India.
If the present humble effort in the form of this little article can tend to stimulate this interest even to a small extent, the author will have been amply rewarded. Any reader of the Upanishads must acknowledge their debt of gratitude to Dr.
Radhakrishnan, Professor Robert Ernest Hume, Professor Joseph-Nadin Rawson, and others upon whose scholarly writings modern translations of the original Sanskrit texts draw so amply.
Moksha or Mukti Salvation VI. It has been the solace of my life. It will be the solace of my death. The Great Riddle The questions, how and why the universe and life have come into being and what will be their destiny, have been the enigma of ages. Whence do we originate? By what do we live and on what established? Upheld by what in pleasure and its reverse Live we our respective lives, O Brahman Knowers?
At whose command does the first breath go forth, at whose wish do we utter the speech? What God directs the eye or. Their ancient documents constitute the earliest written presentation of their efforts to constitute the world experience as a rational whole.
Furthermore, they have continued to be generally accepted authoritative statements, with which every subsequent orthodox philosophic formulation has had to show itself in accord, or at least not in discord.
Attempts are sometimes made to belittle the importance of these enquiries by emphasising the short span of human ; life. But somehow the human mind does not rest satisfied; with these attempts. The Upanishads reveal in a marked degree the restlessness and stirring of the human mind to grasp the meaning and essence of life and its relation with the universe.
Fortunately their authors had not only the driving force of the intense inner urge but also the unique mental and emotional equipment to tackle the great problem with which they were faced.
They combined piety with thought and deep devotion with constant intellectual effort. They had thus acquired that unswerving mental efficiency, poise and patience which are indispensable pre-requisites for concentration and meditation. Their one devouring passion was to get at the truth and it was to satisfy this inner urge that they spent laborious days and sleepless nights. Besides the intellectual and emotional faculties with which the authors of the Upanishads were so well endowed by nature and which they had developed and trained so efficiently, they had through co-ordination and fusion of the divergent elements of personality coupled with spotlessly chaste and austere life, acquired that spiritual insight which alone can penetrate beneath the surface and enable the aspirant to have a direct perception of the underlying reality.
The only thing of value in their eyes, as revealed by a study of their great works, the Upanishads, was the discovery of truth and living in the light of that truth. Fortunate is the individual who profits spiritually by the ennobling and inspiring influence of these saints and sages through their great works.
By meditating upon Him there is the third stage at the dissolution of the body. Even universal lordship, being absorbed, his desire of the body is satisfied. The book was reviewed in the magazine Newsweek in , soon after it was first published.
His book includes Journal of Bible and Religion referred to the book as 'Another solid work by India's greatest living philosopher Radhakrishnan has selected the eighteen most important [Upanishads]' p.
Philosophy stated that 'The Western world was in fact already well provided with translations and critical editions,' but that 'the value of Radhakrishnan's version One reviewer of a subsequent translation of the Upanishads by Swami Nikhilananda provided extensive comparison between the two versions.
Editions include:. In the ancient wisdom texts called 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 translation is reliable and readable, consistently the bestseller in its field. 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. In the end, Easwaran writes, The Upanishads belong not just to Hinduism. They are India s precious legacy to humanity, and in that spirit they are offered here. The seers and sages of Ancient India revealed fundamental principles of perennial philosophy. The Upanishads contain the essential principles of this perennial-this ageless philosophy.
They contain a large number of inspiring and instructive passages and verses. It has not been possible to include all of them in this book. For the purposes of this book the author has taken those verses and passages that have a bearing on the mystical teaching of the Upanishads. It is mysticism which is the very core of the Upanishads-and so in understanding its mysticism one comes to the heart of the sublime and magnificent teaching of the Upanishads.
In this age, where science and technology may lead us into a world devoid of meaning and significance. Modern man needs today a meaningful philosophy if the achievements of science are not to lead him to greater and greater destruction-but to sublime and majestic heights of creative living.
It is in the Vision of Life given by the Upanishads that man can find the fundamental philosophy of Creative Living-a philosophy that can serve as a Beacon Light even in the midst of surrounding darkness, a philosophy that can lead him from the unreal to the Real, from darkness to Light, from death to Immortality.
This book is a thoroughly researched primer on the Upanishads, philosophical treatises that form a part of the Vedas, the revered Hindu texts. These Upanishads contain the most crystallized bits of wisdom gleaned from Hinduism. Roshen Dalal explains the concepts at the core of each Upanishad clearly and lucidly.
Moreover, her vast, diverse philosophical and theological readings add priceless scholarly context to this comprehensive and fascinating volume. A part of the "Vedas," a collection of ancient manuscripts which form the basis for the Hindu religion, the "Upanishads" are ancient Sanskrit texts which contain arguably the most important spiritual aspects of the Hindu faith.
The central theme of the "Upanishads" is not that of a ritualistic systematic philosophy but as Muller describes to "know thy true self, that which underlines thine Ego, and find it and know it in the highest, the eternal Self, the One without a second, which underlies the whole world.
Muller's complete two volume translation is presented here in a single volume printed on a premium acid-free paper. The Upanishads form the final portion of the Vedas which are considered the primeval source of the scriptures. This book provides an exhaustive commentary on four Upanishads namely Kena, Isavasya, Kaivalya and Mundaka. The Upanishads expound a system of philosophy which helps humanity attain spiritual enlightenment.
My body, my mind, my intelligence, my emotions, or none of the above? And where did they put those explosive findings? In a sprawling body of goosebumpy and fascinating oral literature called the Upanishads! The Upanishads are a collection of texts that contain some of the central philosophical concepts of Hinduism.
They are based on principles like samsara, brahman, atman, karma, dharma and moksha and form the core of Indian philosophy. This version is an English translation by Swami Paramananda as part of his mission to spread the eastern teachings of Hinduism to the Western world.
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