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Blurb: “THE UPANISHADS
TRANSLATED AND SELECTED BY JUAN MASCARÓ
The Upanishads represent for the Hindu approximately what the New Testament represents for the Christian. The earliest of these spiritual treatises, which vary greatly in length, were put down in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 B.C.
This selection from twelve Upanishads, with its illuminating introduction by Juan Mascaró, whose translation of the Bhagavad Gita is already in the Penguin Classics, reveals the paradoxical variety and unity, the great questions and simple answers, the spiritual wisdom and romantic imagination of these 'Himalayas of the Soul'.
*Your translation... has caught from those great words the inner voice that goes beyond the boundaries of words' - Rabindranath Tagore in a letter to the translator.
The cover shows an architectural detail (Udayapur) of the period between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, in the Gwalior Archaeological Museum, India (Snark International):”