Nilgiri Press</br></br>Product Description</br></br><div>Among the oldest of India's spiritual texts?? the Upanishads are records of intensive question-and-answer sessions given by illumined sages to their students. Widely featured in philosophy courses?? the Upanishads have puzzled and inspired wisdom seekers from Yeats to Schopenhauer. Eknath Easwaran makes this challenging text more accessible by selecting the passages most relevant to readers seeking timeless truths today. </div><br><br><div>His best-selling?? accessible?? highly readable translation and lively foreword place the teachings in a contemporary context for students and general readers alike.</div></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Formerly a professor of Victorian literature?? Eknath Easwaran discovered the treasures of wisdom in his own native India and began to pursue them with a passion. He has since studied them?? practiced them?? and mov