In this episode we sit down with Varun Khanna to discuss his upcoming course, YS 207 | The Upaniads. We first learn about his background as a pre-med student stumbling into Sanskrit when he tried to study Ayurveda in India, learning Sanskrit as a spoken language, and going on to earn his PhD at Cambridge University. We discuss the mysterious nature of the Upaniads, their relation to the earlier Vedic tradition and to later Indian philosophy, the schools of Vednta, the meaning of key terms...