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[Anonymous No.21981185]

What's the best translation? I'm trying to read some Hindu primary texts. I didn't like Bhagavad Gita, but I heard the Upanishads are more metaphysical.

[Anonymous No.21981239]

Is this the best edition?

[Anonymous No.21981308]

Bhagavad Gita is the same as the Upanishads but in a long and pompous novel.
Anyway you can start here
https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism

[Anonymous No.21981363]

>>21981185
>Principal Upanishads
From my research, it appears to be the translation by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Also the translation in 4 volumes by Swami Nikolananda.

[Anonymous No.21981367]

>>21981363
Also, you can freely read Max Müller's translation here:
sacred-texts.com/hin/upan/index.htm

[Anonymous No.21981590]

>>21981185
Don't read the Upanishads lmfao you're not gonna understand it.

[Anonymous No.21982121]

Is it me or Buddhism doesn't make any sense? Once you remove the Self there's no reincarnation, there's no Nirvana, it's just nothingness. They can't have both.

[Anonymous No.21982174]

>>21982121
That’s precisely what Nirvana is: the ultimate realization of non-self and the attainment of detachment. Also don’t confuse lack of self with lack of subjectivity. Subjectivity is a natural part of samsara, whereas a sense of an essential or immutable self is an illusion because all is empty, passing, ceasing, transient.

[Anonymous No.21982189]

>>21982121
Buddhism is a method not a metaphysics, read Doctrine of Awakening

[Anonymous No.21982210]

>>21982174
Your reply didn't address anything I said and I didn't confuse the 2. Nirvana is nothing.

[Anonymous No.21982269]

>>21982210
Yes it did, retard. Nirvana is just a designation for this nothingness, and for the Buddha and his followers, this nothingness is preferable to suffering, but this quality is only relational. Nirvana is not like heaven. There are heavens in Buddhism as well but they are not Nirvana.

[Anonymous No.21982348]

>>21982269
How can there be heaven if there is no Self? What goes to heaven? Your bundle of thoughts? These only exist while we're alive on this planet with material bodies.

[Anonymous No.21982355]

>>21981185
Patrick Olivelle. It kept the rape.

[Anonymous No.21982361]

>>21981185
This is a chart showing which Upanishad translation includes what text

[Anonymous No.21982392]

I disallow myself to read any sacred texts built for Hindu eyes.