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This was how I started and when I teach it I still use this text.
https://www.amazon.com/Sourcebook-Indian-Philosophy-Sarvepalli-Radhakrishnan/dp/0691019584/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517725459&sr=8-1&keywords=indian+philosophy+sourcebook
And if you want to read about Advaita Vedanta, I like Bina Gupta's (University of Missouri) work a lot. She's also very friendly and I bet she would be happy to e-mail back and forth. She wants more people to get interested in Indian philosophy.
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For "where to start" with books, see this FAQ post, from r/askphilosophyFAQ. There are Introductory anthologies, like these. Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy is something I read at about that age, and it was great (with some caveats).
There are also anthologies for Chinese & Indian Philosophy, or introductions to Chinese & Indian Philosophy; or an intro anthology to World Philosophy.
I'm currently using this text in my Indian philosophy survey. I generally agree with /u/Lanvc. From my [very limited] knowledge on the subject, the upanishads are a very good place to start, but, even beyond that, maybe read some of the early sections in the Vedas (the texts that the upanishads are comments of)? They're pretty useful for contextualizing things.
Unfortunately I don't! I am by no means an expert on this stuff, my knowledge comes entirely from a lovely fat sourcebook of Indian philosophy that I was given by a friend and poke through from time to time. Google is probably your friend.
Edit: This is the book if you are interested.
I've been going back and forth between these books for a few weeks/months now:
This book is a gem A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy - S Radhakrishnan (http://www.amazon.com/Sourcebook-Indian-Philosophy-Sarvepalli-Radhakrishnan/dp/0691019584). It touches almost all the different philosophies prevalent in ancient India. Although it often dives deep into some of them, you can always use it for cursory reading to know all the different schools of thought that existed.
Jay Garfield's translation and commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way) is both an excellent translation and moreover demonstrates one way how to build a rigorously thought out bridge between Western and Eastern philosophies.
Adding to this: Radakrishnan and Moore's Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy is a good introductory overview book.
For Indian philosophy here are some comprehensive books to look into:
http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Survey-Indian-Philosophy-Sharma/dp/0686501179
http://www.amazon.com/Sourcebook-Indian-Philosophy-Sarvepalli-Radhakrishnan/dp/0691019584
http://faculty.washington.edu/kpotter/encyclo.html
And for Chinese philosophy this site seems to have a large repository of translated texts: http://ctext.org
[A Source Book in Indian Philosophy] (http://www.amazon.com/Sourcebook-Indian-Philosophy-Sarvepalli-Radhakrishnan/dp/0691019584)
http://www.amazon.com/Sourcebook-Indian-Philosophy-Sarvepalli-Radhakrishnan/dp/0691019584
This is an excellent book. It covers the a very wide range of Indian philosophy, I've found it enjoyably even though I'm not a serious scholar of eastern works I can always find new and interesting things to ponder when I go through it.