title: Meditation: Commonsense Directions for an Uncommon Life
author:  Eknath Easwaran 
description: <b><i>Meditation</i> has been reissued as <i>Passage Meditation </i>by Nilgiri Press (the publisher of the works of Eknath Easwaran) and isavailable new direct from Amazon</b>
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  **The Upanishads**
  
  Introduced & Translated by
  
  E K N A T H E A S W A R A N
  
    
  
   _Chapter Introductions & Afterword by_
  
   _Michael N. Nagler_
  
    
  
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  N I L G I R I P R E S S
  
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  © 1987, 2007 by The Blue Mountain Center of Meditation
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Print book ISBN 978–1–58638–021–2
  
  E-book ISBN 978–1–58638–025–0
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2007927661
  
  20110618
  
  Cataloging-in-Publication Data will be found  
  on the last page of this book.
  
  Eknath Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in Berkeley,
  California, in 1961. The Center is a nonprofit organization chartered with
  carrying on Easwaran’s legacy and work. Nilgiri Press, a department of the
  Center, publishes books on how to lead a spiritual life in the home and
  community. The Center also teaches Easwaran’s program of passage meditation at
  retreats.
  
  For information please visit www.easwaran.org,  
  call us at 800 475 2369 (US) or 707 878 2369  
  (internatio