Excerpt from The Taittiriya Upanishad: With the Commentaries of Sankaracharya, Suresvaracharya and Sayana (Vidyaranya) Not quite so exhaustive, however, is either Sankara. Charya's or Suresvaracharya's commentary on the Taittiriya Upanishad. The only reason for the latter' 5 writing a vartika on the bhashya of the Upanishad seems to me to have been the high importance of this classical Upanishad as exclusively treating, among other things, of the five Kosas (sheaths of the Self). As the doctrine of the Kosas 13 the pivotal doctrine of the Vedanta'on its theoretical as well as its practical side, students of the Vedanta should be thoroughly familiar with it before proceeding further' in their studies} Accordingly, in an attempt to present to, the English-reading public the Vedanta Doctrine as ex pounded by the two great teachers, it is but proper first to take up the taittiriya-upanishad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.