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Hi there and welcome to my website.
My name is Matthew Barnes and I am the best-selling author of The Emerald Tablet 101, The Tao Te Ching 101, and several others. My newest release, The Bhagavad Gita 101 (see below), is now available in paperback and kindle. I am currently working on The Upanishads 101.
I hope you are all keeping well and staying safe in these turbulent times!
-M
My Newest Release
The Hindu Upanishads are among the best known and most beloved philosophical/ religious/spiritual works in the world, and are also among the oldest, predating the earliest known works of Greek philosophy.
Loosely translated, Upanishad means “sitting at the feet of the masters”. Each one is found at the end of one of the four main Vedas (or Hindu “Bibles”) and is formatted as a “question and answer season” between student and teacher. Imagine being able to sit at the feet of Buddha, Christ, or some other spiritual master and asking questions that would clarify the meaning of the scriptures for you. This is what the Upanishads are for the Hindus.
The teachings contained within their pages have influenced some of the greatest minds of our time, including T.S. Elliot, Leo Tolstoy, Albert Einstein, Arthur Schopenhaur, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and president John Adam, just to name a few. They have also influenced Buddhism, the modern “New Age” movement, and pretty much every other religion that we know of today.
The goal of this series is to help you experience the “fountainhead” of modern spiritual thought for yourself, but in a greatly simplified manner.
The Kaushitaki Upanishad 101 is the fifth work in this series.
Only a few know how much one must know
to know how little one knows.”
-Werner Heisenberg
(Heisenberg was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932. This quote sums up the lessons of The Kaushitaki 101 quite well.)