The Principal Upanishads is a 1953 book written by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, then Vice President of India (and later President of India), about the main Upanishads, which carry central teachings of the Vedanta.
Preface: Human nature is not altogether unchanging but it does remain sufficiently constant to justify the study of ancient classics. The problems of human life and destiny have not been superseded by the striking achievements of science and technology. The solutions offered, though conditioned in their modes of expression by their time and environment, have not been seriously affected by the march of scientific knowledge and criticism. The responsibility laid on man as a rational being, to integrate himself, to relate the present to the past and the future, to live in time as well as in eternity, has become acute and urgent. The Upanishads, though remote in time from us, are not remote in thought. They disclose the working of the primal impulses of the human soul which rise above the differences of race and of geographical position. At the core of all historical religions there are fundamental types of spiritual experience though they are expressed with different degrees of clarity. The Upanishads illustrate and illuminate these primary experiences.
1. Bṛhadāraṇyaka
2. Chāndogya
3. Aitareya
4. Taittirīya
5. Īṣa
6. Kena
7. Kaṭha
8. Praśna
9. Muṇḍaka
10. Māṇḍūkya
11. Śvetāśvatara
12. Kauśītāki
13. Maitrāyaṇi
14. Subāla
15. Jābāla
16. Paiṅgala
17. Kaivalya
18. Vajrasūcikā
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