The Upanishads

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The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma and rebirth, and collectively they are meditations on life, death and immortality The essence of their teachings is that truth can by reached by faith rather than by thought, and that the spirit of God is within each of us we need not fear death as we carry within us the promise of eternal life. Read The Upanishads Author Anonymous – kino-fada.fr I find it interesting how pervasive is the mystic idea of unity From transcendentalists to scientists to Buddhists to Christians to Hindus, I hear this same thing emphasized repeatedly everything is one Physicists wax poetic about how our bodies are made of star dust Biologists and naturalists wonder at the unity of life on earth Christians celebrate the infinite simplicity of God Spinoza s philosophy proclaims the oneness of all reality Walt Whitman had this to say And I know that the han I find it interesting how pervasive is the mystic idea of unity From transcendentalists to scientists to Buddhists to Christians to Hindus, I hear this same thing emphasized repeatedly everything is one Physicists wax poetic about how our bodies are made of star dust Biologists and naturalists wonder at the unity of life on earth Christians celebrate the infinite simplicity of God Spinoza s philosophy proclaims the oneness of all reality Walt Whitman had this to say And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own,And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,And that all the men ever born are also my brothers and the women my sisters and loversAnd here is Herman Hesse Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realization, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while li...The Upanishads, Anonymous 2009 1387 287 9789643059804 5600 The Upanishads, Anonymous 2009 1387 287 9789643059804 5600 1 2 This book first exposed me to the deep, Deep, DEEP wellspring of spirituality that is to be found in the Indian tradition The concept of Atman and Brahman and the interchangeability was so in keeping with my person beliefs that the first reading left me shaken.I am from the Bible belt where our preachers call Indians and others idolaters, polytheists, blasphemers and fuel for hellfire But on reading the Upanishads one realizes that they are closer to monotheism than is Christianity with it s This book first exposed me to the deep, Deep, DEEP wellspring of spirituality that is to be found in the Indian tradition The concept of Atman and Brahman and the interchangeability was so in keeping with my person beliefs that the first reading left me shaken.I am from the Bible belt where our preachers call Indians and others idolaters, polytheists, blasphemers and fuel for hellfire But on reading the Upanishads one realizes that they are closer to monotheism than is Christianity with it s Trinity All is One, there is only Brahman, indeed no other.As the Rig Veda says Truth is One, the Wise merely refer to it in manifold ways The Upanishads...Upanishad means sit down near me That is its true meaning Isnt it so simple Doesnt the meaning of Upanishad remind you of your grandfather or grandmother telling you a story.That is exactly what the Upanishad is.The Upanishad is one of the oldest Hindu scriptures after the vedas but that doesnt mean only Hindus can read it The beauty of the Upanishads is that it never talks about Hinduism.It is a work that explores the metaphysical truths of Human existence If you read carefully,you w Upanishad means sit down near me That is its true meaning Isnt it so simple Doesnt the meaning of Upanishad remind you of your grandfather or grandmother telling you a stor...A remarkable collection of writings that somehow manages to sketch out the lineaments of the perspective of our highest realization The uncanny thing is that these scattered linguistic sketches, left behind by diverse personalities separated by vast gulfs of historical change, nonetheless somehow manage to come together into a unified picture of what it d be like, experientially, to grasp the unity of the real through the fully realized unity of the self These luminous fragments express an und A remarkable collection of writings that somehow manages to sketch out the lineaments of the perspective of our highest realization The uncanny thing is that these scattered linguistic sketches, left behind by diverse personalities separated by vast gulfs of ... Right up there w the Bible and Quran, but if I had to choose I d say Hindu text I ve read thus far is my favorite There s so much love and drama in the text it always leaves me wantingand I feelaccurately describes reasons our world is so unpredictably crazyLectura decepcionante aunque necesaria para mi futuro acercamiento a la obra de Schopenhauer Hay una voluntad de adoctrinaci n muy fuerte y un culto personal al Brahman bastante pol mico Ni en belleza ni en brutalidad material se acerca a los pocos textos budistas que he le do.

The Upanishads
  • English
  • 25 February 2017
  • Paperback
  • 143 pages
  • 0140441638
  • Anonymous
  • The Upanishads