The Upanishads (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality Book 2)

by Eknath Easwaran

Birth is but the beginning of a trajectory to death; for all their love, parents cannot halt it and in a sense have “given us to death” merely by giving us birth.

The Katha is also distinctive in explaining with the use of two very practical terms that every moment we live, even theoretically while we sleep, we face a steep choice between what will move us closer to that day and what will only postpone it – that is, between what is good and

...what is merely pleasant; in Sanskrit, between shreya and preya.