Rahul Yadav

To appear Neutral bring both sides to same level

Reviewed: 09-19-20

Partition of India happened because there is a certain religion, which thinks it is superior to ball others and so it has the right to rule over all the others. when it saw that it cannot happen, ut decided to form its own nation. Latest example of such an event was Kosovo breaking from Serbia.
All other things are just blabbering.

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Life Changing

Reviewed: 04-20-20

Wisdom of Upanishads cannot be doubted. Eashwaran's translation is simple to understand. The narrator has done a great job. Absolute Bliss !!

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Michel Danino is Superb

Reviewed: 09-10-19

Really lived listening to this book. Michel Danino has done a lit of research on the sacred lost river Sarasvati and presents his research very. The content is great, the narrator is also good, but the editing needs improvement. Overall a good book that helped me learn more about my roots.

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Ancient Lifestyle for Modernity

Reviewed: 07-26-19

If you can pass through the initial introduction, which in my opinion was too long, this book has a lot of ancient wisdom that we can include in our modern lifestyle. The book goes through a full day, starting with elimination in the morning to pleasure at night and everything in between. The book can be a drudge for first 2-3 hours when the author tries to enumerate her life experience. I understand that she is trying to lay a foundation for the whole lifestyle, but some people might get bored and drop the whole book. This will be a mistake, a little patient in the begining will pay you well later when she will go through the full Lifestyle changes that we all must incorporate in our daily life to enjoy it to our fullest.

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Confuses Consciousness with Ego

Reviewed: 07-11-19

I come from India and our Indian philosophers have written very extensively on consciousness. Instead of wasting 21 hours on this hodgepodge, just read their work, you will learn far more. If this is the best that western philosophers can produce on consciousness than I am afraid they are little children in front of Indian rishis. The author does a very basic mistake of thinking consciousness to be our thought process or Ego. The first thing we are told in India is not to perform this mistake. Daniel Dennet fails on this very first concept and then wastes 21 hours around his long and tiresome arguments which are useless as he is chasing the wrong goose

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Excellent and much needed

Reviewed: 06-08-19

I really enjoyed listening to this book, learned a lot about Indian armed forces and the conflicts they were involved in. Great performance by the narrator.

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Good for someone new to Mahabharata

Reviewed: 01-09-19

When you read Mahabharat you realize how small and limited Iliad and Odyssey are when compared with Mahabharat. For comparison sake, the whole of Iliad will be equivalent to the section of Mahabharat from Bheesma Vadh to Drona Vadh, which will be just 20th part of the full epic. Moreover the philosophical and moral aspects of life are very lacking in the Homeric epics when compared with Indian epics of Ramayan and Mahabharat.

In India it is said that Mahabharat encompasses all the aspects of human existence. It is a shame that this epic is relatively obscure once you move out of India. maybe it is their immense size because of which Indian epics are relatively unknown to outside people. Reading the actual text has its own pleasure, but you cannot expect people not from Indian origin to read 10 volumes of such ancient text. Krishna Dharma has done a great job in shrinking it down and making the text easy to read for modern casual audience, while at the same time preserving most of the details.

I noticed that he had to sacrifice on the depth of some characters, especially complex ones such as Bheesma and Karna, but considering that he had to compress this ginormous epic, I am not too upset. The other let down was his coverage of Gita, I was hoping that he will go in more details on the wonderful work known as the bhagvat gita, but he compressed that brilliant work into just one Chapter and that also mostly covered Krishna's Viraat Roopa rather than covering the Philosophical aspects.

Unfortunately audible does not have many options for Mahabharat, so I will give 5 stars, because at least the epic is there for you to listen to, it would have been worse if there was no version of this great text available to listen to. Mahabharat in my opinion is the best work on mythology ever produced, no other work can surpass it in terms of the characters, plot, imagination and ethics. Do not miss on this great work of fiction. maybe you will not find it as the best, but surely you will enjoy listening to this age old story.

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No frills version of the great Chinese work

Reviewed: 10-06-18

who can dispute the text of Tao Te Ching, ot is brilliant. Sometimes when jave I listened to an eastern spiritual text, the narrator tries to speak in a calming voice. I sometimes find it distracting. While I was browsing through all the versions I noticed the same calming voice in all the narrations. This one is different and I liked how the narrator narrated this book.

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Superficial information with poor narration

Reviewed: 10-29-17

What can you expect in a 2 hour book. The Author just mentions some concept without going into the details and moves on to next topic, while you end up wondering what was the author talking about. The audio quality of the narration is very poor and the reader reads in a monotonic voice, which makes it hard to stay focused on the content.

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