The Samnyasa Upanisads (On Renunciation) English Translation Only, Based on the Commentary of Upanisad Brahmayogin

Language: English Translation Only
Pages: 240

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The Adyar Library and Research Centre was founded in 1886 by Henry Steel

Olcott, first President of the Theosophical Society, for research in

Eastern Civilization, Philosophy and Religion. Its aim is to promote

understanding among the peoples of the world through knowledge of the

higher aspects of their respective cultures.

The collections of the Library consist of about 18,000 manuscripts,

containing about 45,000 works, both palmeaf and paper, and some 2,00,000

printed volumes. The manuscripts are mostly from India and in Sanskrit. The

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volumes of important Indological journals.

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1937, presenting papers and studies on religion, philosophy and various

aspects of Sanskrit and other oriental literature as well as editions of

ancient texts and translations.


From the Jacket
The Adyar Library has published volumes of the Yoga, Samanya Vedanta,

Vaisnava, Sakta, and Samnyasa Upanisads with commentary of Upanisad

Brahmayogin; and also volumes of their translations.

This volume of The Samnyasa Upanisads contains English translation of

seventeen Upanisads like Avadhuta, Naradaparivrajaka, Nirvana, Jabala,

Paramahamsa, Bhiksuka, Satyayaniya, Samnyasa, etc. They describe different

types of ascetics Kuticaka, Bahudaka, Hamsa, Paramahamsa, Turiyatita and

Avadhuta, and their ways of life, and discipli