This is the kind of text games that academicians play. And so the i belong to entirely different eras. Rama and christina and the age of the puranas much later, and the opening shots are much earlier. All right, now, let me read from a poem from emerson, rosald emerson. Let me see i got the poem here. The name of the poem is bruma. So i'm reading the poem by ralph waldo emerson. Remember h emerson, thorough and uh walt whitman. They were heavily influenced, and they loved ancient indian texts. Emerson actually had the best collection of basanta books, or indian philosophy
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Katha Upanishad, one of India's most revered texts which is also a part of the Vedas. It is a collection of philosophical poems representing a conversation between the sage Naciketas and Yama (god of death). They discuss the nature of Atman, Brahman and Moksha(liberation).