You Are What You Eat

Our task as self-knowers is to get past superficial appearances to progressively deeper notions of the person. The Taitiriya Upanishad declares that breath is not fundamental after all, even if directing our attention towards it is a crucial part of coming to understand the underlying essence of the self. So does the journey towards grasping the self ever reaches destination? You'll have to persevere and join us as we discuss a quest for the self, undertaken in the Upanishads by the god Indra. Next time here on the History of Philosophy in India.