The Upanishads
$55.55
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
20 May 2019
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781586381318 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1586381318 |
| Author: | Eknath Easwaran |
| Publisher: | Nilgiri Press |
| Imprint: | Nilgiri Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 20 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 532g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 135mm x 214mm |
| Series: | Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality |
You Can Find This Book In
Critics Review
“No one in modern times is more qualified – no, make that ‘as qualified’ – to translate the epochal Classics of Indian Spirituality than Eknath Easwaran. And the reason is clear. It is impossible to get to the heart of those classics unless you live them, and he did live them. My admiration of the man and his works is boundless.” – Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions
Eknath Easwaran
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 theclassics 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 onmeditation 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 onmeditation 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 theheart 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.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.