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THE UPANISHADS 

 

Rendered into simple and rhythmic English

 

(Comprising six Upanishads namely the Isha, Kena, Katha,

Mundaka, Prashna and Mandukya)

 

Svalpamapyasya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt

Bhagavadgita 

 

Even a little of this Law delivereth one out of great fear.

 

Quel ch'ella par quando un poco sorride,

Non si po dicer ne tenere a mente,

Si e novo miracolo e gentile.

Dante

 

What she appears when she smiles a little,

Cannot be spoken of, neither can the mind lay hold

It is so sweet and strange and sublime a miracle.

 

 

First page, typewritten by Sri Aurobindo of the manuscript containing

the above six Upanishads

The rooted and fundamental conception of Vedanta  is that there exists somewhere, could we but find it,  available to experience or self-revelation, if denied to  intellectual research, a single truth comprehensive and  universal in the light of which the whole of existence  would stand revealed and explained both in its nature  and its end. This universal existence, for all its multitude  of objects and its diversity of forces, is one in substance  and origin; and there is an unknown quantity, X  or Brahman to which it can be reduced, for from that it  started and in and by that it still exists. This unknown  quantity is called Brahman.