Introduction : 4.





And yet, these great Rishis have made not an altogether unsuccessful  attempt, if not in expressing, at least in conveying the Infinite to the intuitive appreciation of such students of the literature who have been prepared for living it.

The impossible has been thus rendered possible because of the suggestiveness of the words.

Therefore, we find that the Upanishads, when read with a mere 'dictionary-understanding' of the language, lands us in confusions, understandings and mis-understandings.



In short, the concept of Truth is not easy to comprehend nor to express.

But the special style and technique followed by the sacred Upanishads bring the Truth nearer to us.

The term "Upanishad" literally means "bringing nearer to us the Transcendental and make it exist for us."

They make the incomprehensible Truth comprehensible; the Self ( Atma ) which is ever with us, but lost to us in the clouds of our misapprehensions, is unveiled and brought to our 'subjective' experience by these declarations, and so they are called "Upanishads.


To be continued ...



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