The Philosophy of the Upanishads
by Paul Deussen and A.S. Geden (Tr.)

Paul Deussen published his brilliant German work 'Die Philosophic der Upanishads' a century back in 1899, which was rendered into English by A.S. Geden in 1906. This rendering has been very much popular ever since the fact that the literature in English and other languages on the philosophy of the Upanishads has piled up considerably now.

The philosophy of the Upanishads, according to Paul Deussen, is the culminating point of the Indian doctrine of the universe and this point, he said, had been already reached in Vedic, pre-Buddhistic times; and in philosophical significance has been surpassed by non of the later developments of thought up to the present day.

In view of the importance of Deusses’s work Geden’s English rendering is herein reprinted on a persistent demand by the readers of Indian Philosophy.

About the Author:

Paul Deussen is one of the foremost Western scholars who have devoted their lives to understand and interpret the philosophy of the Upanishads. His Sechzig Upanishads des Veda has remained for a long time inaccessible to the common Indian reader owing to its German language. It is now for the first time appearing in English translation