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11 The Upanishads (Part One)

The History of Literature

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The Importance of Renouncement

The Isha Upanashad poems are abstract to the point of not standing on their own. I don't like that it cries out for interpretation and explanation, he says. "I've seen too many flaws in humans," writes Bhagavad Ghandi. The word renounce is a difficult one as well: my antenna are twitching at that word."

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