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Essence of the Upanishads

A Key to Indian Spirituality

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Essence of the Upanishads

By: Eknath Easwaran
Narrated by: Paul Bazely
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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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Through the impenetrable verses of Kata upanishad Eknath Easwaran lays out the map to self realisation. Anecdotal, entertaining, challenging, inspiring narration of a journey every human being should know about and take upon. It sums up everything Eknath Easwaran as the guru of modern times would want to tell us. Last two chapters stores the literal translation of the original work whose compactness fails most humans unpack it there much needed commentary in the previous 26 chapters.

Essential view of enlightenment

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Deep, beautiful and mind opening narrative translated with full understanding and read with great clarity .

Upanishads

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I would say it us essential to listen to this audio if you are interested in personal growth or even something deeper

Incredibly interesting & useful

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Brilliant esoteric yet modern wisdom and read with such a beautiful voice. One of my all time favourite audiobooks and I recommend it to everybody! Great intro into how to apply the ancient wisdom of the Upanishads to our world.

Fantastic and transformative book

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An excellent listen on every level. I have listened 3 t8mea now and each listen was like the first. I know it is one I will come back to time and again. So much wisdom so beautifully shared .

I love this book. I have listened 3 times now!

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