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Pooja Ahuja

The Thirteen Principal Upanishads (Classic Reprint) by Robert Hume

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Indian and Hindu Texts

Publisher: Forgotten Books (April 17, 2010)
ISBN: 978-1440071232
Paperback: 560 pages
About: PREFACE IN the LONG history of man's endeavor to grasp the fundamental truths of being, the metaphysical treatises are known as the Upanishads1 hold an honored place. They represent the earnest efforts of the profound thinkers of early India to .solve the problems of the origin, nature, and the destiny of man and of the universe, or more technically the meaning and value of ' knowing' and ' being.' Though they contain some fanciful ideas, naive speculations, and inadequate conclusions, yet they are replete with sublime conceptions and with intuitions of universal truth.2 Here are found intimations of the inadequacy of mere nature-worship and of the falsity of an empty ceremonialism...

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