Classics of Indian Spirituality: Includes: The Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada, and the Upanishads

Eknath Easwaran

ISBN 10: 0915132443 / ISBN 13: 9780915132447

Published by Nilgiri Press January 1993, 1993

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Condition Note: Small scuff on the spine of one of the books.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Classics of Indian Spirituality: Includes: The Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada, and the Upanishads
• Publisher: Nilgiri Press January 1993
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0915132443
• ISBN 13: 9780915132447
• Binding: Unknown
• Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

A beautiful boxed set of the three scriptures of ancient India most meaningful to an American reader: the Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada, and the Upanishads.

About the Author

Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999) brings to this volume a rare combination of credentials. Trained from a young age in one of the purest Sanskrit traditions in India, he had a deep intuitive knowledge of his own Hindu legacy. He also had a great love of Western literature and was chairman of the English department at a major Indian university when he came to the United States on a Fulbright fellowship in 1959.From the 1960s onwards, Easwaran held classes on mysticism and practical spirituality for a primarily Western audience. A gifted teacher, he was able to anticipate the problems that Western readers may have with the concepts underlying the classics of Indian spirituality, and to explain them in fresh and profoundly simple ways.He founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in California, and in 1967, at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught the first academic course on meditation ever offered for credit at a major American university. He continued to teach passage meditation and his Eight Point Program for spiritual living to an American and international audience for almost forty years.