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Insights Into Existence : Essays on the Upanisads

Raghunandan, Readworthy, 2008, xxii, 282 p, ISBN : 818997310X, $34.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)

Contents: Key to transliteration. Foreword. Preface. Prologue. 1. Kaleidoscopic problems of life. 2. An overview of the Upanisads. 3. The eligibility for the quest. 4. From questions to the quest. 5. The approach of the Upanisads. 6. The terminus of the quest. 7. The means for the quest. 8. The three states of consciousness. 9. Awareness, the fourth. 10. Life's constant companion: death. 11. Death: the preceptor. 12. Teachings of death. 13. Knowledge and knowing. 14. Beyond knowledge and knowing. 15. Stories from the Upanisads. 16. Freedom from bondage. 17. Divine acceptance. 18. Epilogue. Index.

"It is generally opined--though erroneously, that the Vedanta or Upanisads are beyond the reach of common lot of people, and are meant for only the recluses dedicated to the spiritual quest. Actually, as our ancestors were children of nature, their quest and the resultant dialogues are as simple as they are relevant, to our day-to-day life.

Swami Vivekananda not only introduced them to the general public, but also tried to convince them that the Upanisads have solutions to our common problems. He went to the extent of saying that the Vedanta is the future religion of the world. The essays presented in this book attempt to give a glimpse into the Upanisadic methodology or Vicara as it is called, which makes use of doubt and inquiry."

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