![]() ![]() I'm including this section as well as another in the Isa Upanishad about remembrance of our true essence. She asked me to dance with her that whole afternoon and we became good friends. I read to her the passage on "the wonder of joy". A girl came up to me and asked why I was so happy. When reading the Taittiriya Upanishad on the nature of Brahman as joy, I realized that it's the joy expressed by the goddess on the book's cover. When the Cornell folk dance club had their annual picnic by Cayuga Lake one day, I brought this book along. I was starting my spiritual quest for enlightenment at this time, and carried this paperback with me wherever I went on the campus. The statue on the cover showed an a multi-armed goddess with eyes closed dancing in ecstasy (9th century,Gwalior Arachaeological Museum, India). I first came across Juan MascarĂ³s translation of The Upanishads in the Penguin Classics edition at Cornell around 1968. ![]()
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