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EAN: 9780020715504 ISBN: 0020715501 Label: MacMillan Publishing Company. Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing Company. Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1975-11 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company. Studio: MacMillan Publishing Company. Average Rating:
 Rating: - RAMI agree with Mr. Littrell. This is THE Upanishads to read in English. Three quotes from differing spots in the Text: "You cannot see the seer of the sight. You cannot hear the hearer of the sound. You cannot think the thinker of the thought. You cannot know the knower of the known. Your own Self lives in the hearts of all. Nothing else matters." -YadnyawalkyaJi "`He who knows the soundless, odourless, tasteless, intangible, formless, deathless, supernatural, ... Read More Rating: - Beautiful poetic renditionOf the many thousands of books that essentially are one of a kind and out of print, few are more worthy of being reissued than this very beautiful rendition of the heart of the Upanishads. World class poet W. B. Yeats, working with Vedic scholar Sri Swami Purohit, retired to Majorca away from the war clouds gathering over Europe in the thirties with the intent of making "a translation that would read as though the original had been written in common English" (p. 8). Here's an exchange between the ... Read More |
