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The Upanishads

Translated and commentated by Swami Paramananda

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Swami Paramananda’s plain English version of the Isa, Katha and Kena Upanishads, each verse followed by his commentary, prepared for his classes at the Vedanta Centre of Boston. The reader gives all three.

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Title: The Upanishads: Translated and commentated by Swami Paramananda
Translated by: Swami Paramananda
Publisher: The Vedanta Centre, Boston
Year: 1919

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Modern1800 CE to 1945 CE

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Essays

On SilenceEvery contemplative tradition prizes silence, and not only as the absence of noise. What the traditions teach about the silence of the tongue, the silence of the mind and the silence before the ultimate; why they hold that speech spends a strength which silence gathers; and where silence goes wrong.

Reading lists

Six Weeks with the UpanishadsA guided path through three of the oldest Upanishads, the Isa, the Katha and the Kena, one theme a week: the whole, the Self in all beings, the boy who questioned Death, the good and the pleasant, the chariot, and the eye of the eye.