The Upanishads

Introduction · The Sacred Books of the East

Translated

By various Oriental scholars and edited by

F. Max Müller

Vol. I

The Upanishads

Translated by F. Max Müller

In two parts

Part I

Oxford, the Clarendon Press

To

The Right Honourable the Marquis of Salisbury, Kg

Chancellor of the University of Oxford,

Lately Secretary of State for India,

Sir Henry J. S. Maine, K.os.i

Member of the Council of India,

And

The Very Rev. H. G. Liddell, DD

Dean of Christ Church,

To Whose Kind Interest and Exertions

This Attempt to Make Known to the English People

The Sacred Books of the East

Is So Largely Indebted,

I Now Dedicate These Volumes with Sincere Respect and Gratitude,

F. MAX MÜLLER.

'The general inclinations which are naturally implanted in my soul to some religion, it is impossible for me to shift off: but there being such a multiplicity of religions in the world, I desire now seriously to consider with my self which of them all to restrain these my general inclinations to. And the reason of this my enquiry is not, that I am in the least dissatisfied with that religion I have already embraced; but because 'tis natural for all men to have an overbearing opinion and esteem for that particular religion they are born and bred-up in. That, therefore, I may not seem biassed by the prejudice of education, I am resolved to prove and examine them all; that I may see and hold fast to that which is best....