The Message of the Upanisads [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2016] Swami Ranganathananda - Softcover

Swami Ranganathananda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8172765428 ISBN 13: 9788172765422

Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2016

Synopsis

Language: EnglishPages: 644Introduction The Charm and Power of the UpanishadsThe Message of the Upanishads is a study, verse by verse, of three of the principal Upanishads, namely, Isa, Kena, and Katha. The first contains eighteen, the second thirty-five, and the third one hundred and nineteen verses. Though constituting a small portion of the total Upanishadic literature, they yet contain a lucid exposition of all the essential ideas of this immortal literature.Scholars are divided as to the date of the composition of the Upanishads. Many of them are agreed, however, that most of the principal Upanishads belong to the period prior to the event of Buddha in the seventh century before Christ. There are over two hundred Upanishads, many of them sectarian in character and palpably post-Buddhistic and even post-Sankaracharya.The Principal UpanishadsThe principal Upanishads are accepted to be thos

About this edition

• Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 8172765428
• ISBN 13: 9788172765422
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 644