Excerpt from The Religious Mysticism of the Upanishads, Selected d104s With Translations and Notes No apology is needed for an attempt to do justice to the elements of moral and religious value contained in the Upanishads concurrently with full regard to the results obtained by the literary criticism of recent writers. What is needed is an apology for having attempted such a task myself. To be properly accomplished it should presuppose not only a very thorough knowledge of the Upanishads but also a wide range of other Sanskrit reading. Earlier and contemporary Sanskrit and Pali literature should have been critically studied, and the later developments of the Vedanta should be thoroughly known. I possess no such qualifications, and do not wish to impose upon the reader by suggesting a claim to be recognised as a pundit, a claim to which I can make no pretensions. I was urged to undertake this work by a friend who is himself a Sanskrit scholar, and but for him should never have under taken it. At the same time, the subject deeply interest ed me and I could see the possibilities of it. My hope is that this selection and translation will be of religious use, if not directly, then indirectly, as leading to a better attempt in the same direction. The combination of devotional value with critical accuracy is never easy to achieve. It is that, however, at which I have aimed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.