{"product_id":"9789384281076","title":"Isa Upanishad: De-gendering the text.","description":"This rendition of an Upanishadic text is but a part of a larger series; the aim of this work is to construe Hindu religious texts as literature, and examine them within a gendered inflected analytical framework. What prevents us from examining the Upanishadic or the Vedic texts within a literary or a gendered perspective? If the basis of religion is \"revealed knowledge,\" which was made evident to men - then is it not obvious that these notions of the Absolute Being would but be defined within gender inflected terminologies? The personal gender-biases of men would affect and predetermine how the notions of the Supreme Being were written about.\u003cp\u003eExtracts from the ISA UPANISHAD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. By doing karma, indeed, should one wish to live here for a hundred years. For a person, such as you (who wants to live thus), there is no way other than this, whereby karma may not cling to you.\u003cbr\u003e6. S\/he who sees all beings in the Self itself, and the Self in all beings, feels no hatred by virtue of that (realization).\u003cbr\u003e8. S\/he is all-pervasive, pure, bodiless, without wound, without sinews, taintless, untouched by sin, omniscient, ruler of mind, translucent, and self-existent; s\/he has duly allotted the (respective) duties to the eternal years (i.e. to the eternal creators called by that name).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lies and Big Feet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043732144368,"sku":"9789384281076","price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789384281076_p0.jpg?v=1763675179","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789384281076","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}