This book is a landmark in the study of early Indian religious literature, and offers a fresh reading of several central Upanishadic texts. Most studies of the Upanisads have perceived the two distinct components of the texts—the stories and the metaphysical analysis—as being distinct and unrelated. This book, however, argues that storytelling and philosophy in the Upanisads is related and explores the links between them. According to the author, the lives ...
