The Chhandogya Upanishad Of The Sama Veda

Ten Upanishads Of Four Vedas,Ram K.Piparaiya:A contemporary treatise that contains unabridged texts,numerous commentaries,simplified synopses, and inspirational highlights.The book is a useful compendium of original Upanishadic texts and commentaries. Interfaith classics that contemplate on..What is God?Where from came the cosmos?Who am I?Why am I here? Upanishads are a record of human mind's earliest contemplatives flights to the unknown.Many of the anonymous seekers proceeded great masters and prophets like Lao-Tzu,Comfucius,Socrates,Zoroaster,Buddha,Mahavira,Abraham and Jesus,by at least a few centuries. Upanishads use many captivating,stories and metaphors to bring out the relationship between man,God and world.Timeless truths are condensed in profound aphorisms.After a few glimpses of Upanishads texts, their mere presence on a bookshelf inspires thoughts of wisdom.

Chandogya Upanishad forms a part of the Chandogya Brahmana of the Sama Veda. It is one of the largest Upanishads. It has eight chapters, each voluminous with many verses. Swami Swahananda, who was a senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order and a minister of the Vedanta Society of Southern California from 1976 to 2012, has translated the Upanishad into English. He has exercised utmost care in supplying word for word translation. He has also given a brief but useful notes based on Sri Sankara’s commentary and the gloss of Anandagiri. Swami Vimalananda, who was one of the outstanding scholarly monks of the Ramakrishna Order, has given a mastery introduction to the translated work. It supplies a guideline to the reader in arriving at the facts, expressions, customs, concepts, traditions, and doctrines that find their origin or a place in the text.

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