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Harshit Mahey

The Upanishads translated by Valerie Roebuck

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Indian and Hindu Texts

Publisher: Penguin Classics (April 27, 2004)
ISBN: 978-0140447491
Paperback: 592 pages
About: An “Upanisad” is a teaching session with a guru, and the thirteen texts of the “Principal Upanishads”—which comprise this volume—form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world. Composed beginning around the eighth century BCE, the Upanisads have been central to the development of Hinduism, exploring its central doctrines: rebirth, karma, overcoming death and achieving detachment, equilibrium, and spiritual bliss. Speaking to the reader in direct, unadorned prose or lucid verse, the Upanisads collected here embody humanity’s perennial search for truth and knowledge...

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