BOOK SUMMARY OF THE INSTITUTES OF VISHNU:SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST (VOL. 7)
The Chandogya Upanisad: The culture it reflects is remote and archaic, the
texture of its ritualistic and contemplative symbolism thick and
dense-virtually a closed book for us moderns. A sustained self-submitting
attentiveness, however, discloses its language as resonating disturbingly
modern notes, focusing our attention on many of our pathologies as well as
our possibilities, pathologies and possibilities that have escaped the
notice of us moderns. The spirit of quiet hermeneutics that characterizes
this study illumines many an opaque spot in this text, solves many an