The Upanishads - Couverture souple

Swami Paramananda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1603864164 ISBN 13 : 9781603864169

Editeur : Watchmaker Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

An Unabridged, Unaltered Printing of the Second Edition to Include All Parts of the Following Upanishads: Isa-Upanishad - Katha-Upanishad - Kena-Upanishad, Taken From the Original Sanskrit Text with Preface and Introduction.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Swami Paramananda was born on 5 February 1884 as Suresh Chandra Guha-Thakurta, the youngest son of a prestigious family, in the village of Banaripara. The village is in the district of Barisal, which was then part of East Bengal in British India and is now part of Bangladesh. His father, Ananda Mohan Guha-Thakurta, was well known as a progressive, a champion for women’s education, a legacy he was to pass along to his sons. His mother, Brahmamoyee Basu, bore eight children before dying of cancer in her early forties, when Suresh was nine years old. Suresh was known for his affectionate nature and cheerfulness. When Suresh was sixteen, his father began to lose his eyesight. As a result, Suresh read devotional texts aloud and one that was particularly compelling was a collection of “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna,” a revered saint who had died fourteen years prior. On his seventeenth birthday, Suresh joined a group of older men from the village in a journey to Belur Math to visit the monastery and temple founded by Ramakrishna’s disciples. There he met his teacher, Vivekananda, who was the foremost disciple of Ramakrishna and the first swami to teach in America.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The treasured and classic writings of Hinduism are published here in their complete English translation by Swami Paramananda.

First translated to English by Swami Paramananda as part of his mission to spread the eastern teachings of Hinduism to the Western world, The Upanishads contain many of the tenets, principles and reflections upon life which Hindus emphasise in their belief system. Using his experience as a religious scholar, Paramananda sensitively and successfully translated the wisdom into the foremost of Western languages.

Originally written during the 5th century B.C., the Upanishads collectively explain Hindu philosophy. The nature of the world, of life's renewal, and of the divine are discussed within the verses. Ideas such as Brahman (Ultimate Reality) and Atman (the Soul or Self) carry a place on the pages.

The central principle behind the entire text is simply to know your Atman, and follow the guidance and wisdom within the text. The words put to paper have had a huge impact on Eastern societies, with orders of Monism and the Vedanta schools founded to continue and uphold their eternal guidance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Watchmaker Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1603864164
• ISBN 13: 9781603864169
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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