This is a very thick book with comprehensive commentary on each verse and a great introduction. I highly recommend reading the introduction before delving into the Upanishads. The sanskrit text is presented in Latin transliteration -- I found this very useful. Once I gathered from the reading what are the basic sanskrit terms for major concepts I could always look at the transliteration if I wanted to clarify the translated text. The translation tries to be as literal as possible without loosing the meaning. I find that good. Another good thing about this translation is that of the translated Upanishads no passages are skipped.

In many other translations the passages that are thought by the translator to be "irrelevant" to the Western reader are often skipped. I would rather have the version where I have the option of deciding what is relevant and what is not. ( )

This is a very thick book with comprehensive commentary on each verse and a great introduction. I highly recommend reading the introduction before delving into the Upanishads. The sanskrit text is presented in Latin transliteration -- I found this very useful. Once I gathered from the reading what are the basic sanskrit terms for major concepts I could always look at the transliteration if I wanted to clarify the translated text. The translation tries to be as literal as possible without loosing the meaning. I find that good. Another good thing about this translation is that of the translated Upanishads no passages are skipped.

In many other translations the passages that are thought by the translator to be "irrelevant" to the Western reader are often skipped. I would rather have the version where I have the option of deciding what is relevant and what is not. ( )