Essence of the Upanishads
A Key to Indian Spirituality
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Paul Bazely
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Written by:
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Eknath Easwaran
About this listen
The Katha Upanishad embraces the key ideas of Indian mysticism in a mythic story we can all relate to – the quest of a young hero, Nachiketa, who ventures into the land of death in search of immortality.
But the insights of the Katha are scattered, hard to understand. Easwaran presents them systematically, and practically, as a way to explore deeper and deeper levels of personality, and to answer the age-old question, “Who am I?”
Easwaran grew up in India, learned Sanskrit from a young age, and became a professor of English literature before coming to the West. His translation of The Upanishads is the best-selling edition in English.
For students of philosophy and of Indian spirituality, and readers of wisdom literature everywhere, Easwaran’s interpretation of this classic helps us in our own quest into the meaning of our lives.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-10-20
great story narrated with foreign accent
story was great. narrator did not bother to learn 3 syllable sanskrit words. I had to look up what was the word narrator was trying to say. ironically he seemed to speak French and Hebrew phrases well
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- Karn
- 19-09-23
A beautiful journey inwards
Mr.Easwaran's guided understanding of the Katha Upanishad is so nuanced and yet so elegantly and simply conveyed. There's a lot to unfold
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- M
- 20-10-19
Clarity .
The meaning of life revealed beautifully. Its the best book to start your journey towards spirituality .
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-10-20
Here is the way for the ultimate truth
Very lucidly told the path of ultimate gyaan!
Many are in search of the ultimate truth. Its hard ro find, harder to accept and hardest to follow. Yet those who are looking for it, must listen to this .
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- Prakhar Garg
- 30-03-24
An Eye Opener
One of the best book I've ever read/listened. It opened my mind to the ground reality, the bigger truth of life, identifying the self. The way this book explains the learning with so much contemporary examples. Everyone who will read this, will become a pebble going with the river flow from unknown to known.
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- Deepak Chetri
- 11-05-20
Good book
Good for the one looking forward to control mind, desire. I loved but it could be made little more simple
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- Balamurugan
- 24-09-19
must read book!!
Life transforming book, explained the nature of the universe in a logical manner!! Wish everyone can read this book to start their inner journey
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- Dr RAKESH CHAK
- 04-11-20
Nice book for spiritual beginners
book somewhere seems repetition of "Passage Meditation" , another book of same author.
More of "Upanishads" should be discussed instead.
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- Dishant Mahajan
- 22-10-20
Amazingly explained and well narrated
I listened to the audio book version and it was quite well narrated. Having said that, this book has done to explain the vivid difference between the physical body, mental states and self. The author has done justice to rich ancient texts of upanishads by explaining how we should look at humans as not just physical beings but conscious and spiritual. The author use good real life examples to explain the importance of understanding the causality behind our different mental states and how they can be understood and aligned to the right goals.
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- Sandeep Sharma
- 09-10-20
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wonderful rendition of eternal truth told thousands of years ago. essential for journey to self
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