Samnyasa Upanishads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c4.1

c4.1

The ideal of every translator is clarity and accuracy, two goals that often tend to exclude each other. I have attempted here to reproduce in English as accurately as current scholarship and my abilities permit the meaning of the original Sanskrit text. Although this work may be of some help to scholars who know Sanskrit, it is nevertheless aimed primarily at the non-specialist. The introduction provides a context for reading these documents, and I have tried to make the translation as clear and comprehensible as possible on its own without reference to the Sanskrit original.