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My best thanks are due to my friend MtAnbalal M. Engineer,
B. A. , LL. B., fo¢his invaluable help in correcting and punctuating
the text, in collating some miss., and in preparing the index &c.
I am alsograteful to MrDaji Sahib Khare, B.A., LL. B., for giving
me facilities to get some valuable reference books. I am indebted
also to ly friends MrTransukharam S. Tripathi, B. A., Mr
Hiralal B. Shrof, B. A. and Mr. Keshavji Nursy for lending me
some valuable Sanskrit books.
The Taittiriya Upanishad is so called because of the recension
(Shhh) of the Krishna- Yajurveda to which it belongs. It is
one of the most popular andbest known of the classical Upanishads.
It enjoys this popularity and high inmportance, first because,
it alone treats, among other things, of the five Koshas (sheaths
or vestures of the self); secondly, because of its grand moral and
spiritual philosophyAs the doctrine of the Koshas is the pivotal
doctrine of the Vedanta on its theoretical as well as its practical
side, students should thoroughly understand it before proceeding
further in their Vedant study. The late Prof. Max Muller (Vide
his [ekota Philosophy, p. 35) remarks that in this Taittiriya
Upanishad the uniform purpose running through all of them
(the Upanishads), was clearly brought out, and a system of
philosophy was erected out of such diverse materials, which is
not only perfectly coherent, but quite clear and distinct on almost
every point of doctrine.' "
No philosophy, ancient or modern, can be said to come
within a measurable distance of Shri Shankarबैcharya's. All of
them are confined in space and time to the sciences; while Shri
Shankaracharya's is bounded on the one hand only by Infinity,
and on the other only by Eternity.
Instead of speaking in superlative language concerning the
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