The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal (Mentor) [Paperback]

Anonymous (Author), Swami Prabhavananda (Translator), Frederick Manchester (Translator)

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• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Signet (April 1, 1957)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451626079
• ISBN-13: 978-0451626073
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,279,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The essense of the twelve principle Upanishads, December 12, 2005

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This review is from: The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal (Mentor) (Paperback)

_If you have ever been intimidated by the multi-volume scholarly translations of the Upanishads, then this book is for you. I still marvel at how Prabhavananda and Manchester managed to encapsulate so much of the core content and meaning of the twelve principle Upanishads in such a slim volume. Yet they did- and it works.

_Of course if you truly understand these oldest of mystical scriptures then you could condense them down still further to:
Brahma is true, the world is false,
The soul is Brahma and nothing else.

_Or if that is a bit wordy for you, then you can sum up the Upanishads, and all the Vedas, with: "Tat tvam asi" (Thou art that.)

_Most people need to work up to the true understanding of these statements with a bit more commentary, however....

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5.0 out of 5 stars The essense of the twelve principle Upanishads, January 24, 2009

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_If you have ever been intimidated by the multi-volume scholarly translations of the Upanishads, then this book is for you. I still marvel at how Prabhavananda and Manchester managed to encapsulate so much of the core content and meaning of the twelve principle Upanishads in such a slim volume. Yet they did- and it works, or at least it did for me.

_Of course if you truly understand these oldest of mystical scriptures then you could condense them down still further to:
Brahma is true, the world is false,
The soul is Brahma and nothing else.

_Or if that is a bit wordy for you, then you can sum up the Upanishads, and all the Vedas, with: "Tat tvam asi" (Thou art that.)

_Most people need to work up to the true understanding of these statements with a bit more commentary, however....

However, as the introduction points out, the real study in religion is the first-hand experience of God.