Author: Swami Rama
Paperback: 121 pages
Language: English
Description:This is Swami Rama’s practical and extremely valuable commentary on one of the most celebrated of the Upanishads, the sacred scriptures that form the basis of spiritual thought in India. Serving both as an introduction to yoga philosophy and as a careful guide for scholars, this excellent study begins with a history of the Upanishads, which are the world’s oldest source of knowledge. This scripture explains the essential questions of the nature of God, the origin of ignorance and illusion, and the levels of mind and consciousness.
Reviews:
* “Outstanding ... even more appealing than the one by W. B. Yeats or Sri Aurobindo.” —The Illustrated Weekly of India
* “Certainly worth reading.” —Research Communications in Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavior
Excerpts:
From Chapter 1 - This life stands between the two ends of birth and death. Our life, emerging from behind the curtain of the unknown, exhibits itself for some time to the is manifest world and then makes its exit, merging with the unknown again. This life is like a manuscript which has lost its pagesw in the beginning and at the end. One who seeks to find these missing pages is called a philosopher, and the search for them is known as philosophy. Life is not confined to only what we see or know of it in the present. Who are we? From where have we come? Where have we to go? These are questions which press for an answer. ---Swami Rama