The Upanishads (Penguin Classics)

The Upanishads, the earliest of which had been composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, type a part of the
Vedas – the sacred and historical scriptures which are the premise of the Hindu faith. Every Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme starting from the attainment of non secular bliss to karma and rebirth, and collectively they’re meditations on life, loss of life and immortality. The essence of their teachings is that reality can by reached by religion quite than by thought, and that the spirit of God is inside every of us – we’d like not worry loss of life as we stock inside us the promise of everlasting life.

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