Waking Up Tapes

Waking Up

audio recording

Waking Up

Waking Up is a set of ten short chapters on Vedanta, its applications, its history and the figures behind the Ramakrishna Vivekananda movement. It is an excellent means of explaining Vedanta to your inquiring friends.

Narrated by Charlton Griffin, a recipient of the Audie Award for Classic Fiction and other honors. AudioFile Magazine describes Charlton Griffin's narrative skills as "a happy marriage of prose, performance, and production...with the intimate tone of the master storyteller."

Digitally recorded and edited, with music and sound effects. Satisfaction guaranteed.

The attractive packaging, designed by Alston Anderson, is worthy of your bookshelf or tape deck.

2 cassettes $16.00
1 MP3 CD $14.00
Running Time: 2 hours, Unabridged
ISBN# 1-929718-15-2
#4001-4
Audio Excerpt (mp3 format, 956 K)

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(323) 960-1736
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Also available as a booklet

REVIEW

It's hard to imagine a better introduction to Vedanta. Based on the Upanishads, this ancient spiritual philosophy has close ties to other Indian disciplines, like yoga. Yogeshananda explains the basic tenets of Vedanta in simple language, illustrating his points with references to science, literature, and religion. Charlton Griffin is the perfect choice to narrate these 10 brief chapters. He's comfortable with Sanskrit terms and Indian names, and his delivery is uniformly clear and intelligent. Even more importantly, Griffin seems not only to understand the spiritual concepts explained, but the reasoning behind them, and the challenges they offer listeners. This emerges in masterful pacing, and the wry inflection of Yogeshananda's jokes.

Greg T. Beatty
AudioFile Magazine