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A Study of the Katha‑Upanisad (IV, 1)

By Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

Vol. 11 · No. 3September - 1935pp. 570–584English

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  • “The Self-existent pierced the senses ouiward: Therefore one looks without, not at ihe Inner-self, Desiring immortality a certain sage With eves averted saw the Self-within.”
  • “In the first place it is misleading to render 4/07 merely by ‘senses’: Hume’s ‘‘openings (of the senses)’’ corresponding to Sankara’s sndriya-dvdra is much 80 be preferred.”

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