Thankyou for publishing “Interpreting the Upanishads” by Ananda Wood. I find a small part of it most helpful, and I cite this webpage on my website.

Upanishads are traditionally presented in obscure language that can confuse more than clarify. To the point of being (almost) incomprehensible.

This gives a misleading impression that Upanishad is obscure, esoteric, and only the elite can understand them. Indeed, for very many centuries Upanishad has been reserved only for the Brahman priestly caste.

This is a great loss, for Upanishad can be easy to understand, if priority is given to a translation that is clear, simple and easy to understand. To achieve this, we need to extrapolate considerably from the dictionary translation, or rely on other info sources, and adjust word sequence and case, to translate Upanishad. This I have done at –
http://www.mantra-translate.org/mandukya-upanishad-word-by-word.html
http://www.mantra-translate.org/isha-upanishad-word-by-word.html

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Best wishes from Mike B

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