The Six Systems of Indian PhilosophyLongmans, Green, 1899 - 618 pages |
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admit Ahamkâra ancient Anumâna argument atheism Atman authority Avidyâ Avyakta Bâdarâyana Bhagavad-gîtâ body Brahmâ Brahman Brih Brihaspati Buddhi Buddhist called cause century commentary creation creator deity Devas divine doctrines doubt earth eternal ether existence explained fact follows Gaimini gods Gotama Greek Gunas highest Hindu hymns idea India Indian philosophy individual souls inference Îsvara Kanâda Kapila Kârikâs knowledge Lord Manas Mâyâ means meant meditation Mîmâmsâ mind Moksha Monism Nakiketas nature Nescience never Nyâya and Vaiseshika object originally passages Patañgali perceived perception phenomenal philo possess Pragâpati Prakriti Pramânas prove Purusha Pûrva-Mîmâmsâ qualities question Râmânuga recognised Rig-veda Sabda sacrifice Samkara Sâmkhya Sâmkhya-philosophy Sâmkhya-Sûtras Sanskrit scholars seems sense Smriti sophy Sphota Sruti supposed supreme Sûtras systems of philosophy Tanmâtras Tattva-samâsa teaching things thou thought tion translation true truth Upanishads Vâk Veda Vedanta Vedanta-philosophy Vedântists Vedic Vyâpti Vyâsa word Yoga Yoga-philosophy Yogin
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Page 254 - And that a higher gift than grace Should flesh and blood refine, God's presence and his very self, And essence all-divine.
Page 255 - But utter clearness, and thro' loss of Self The gain of such large life as match'd with ours Were Sun to spark — unshadowable in words, Themselves but shadows of a shadow-world.
Page 255 - And more, my son! for more than once when I Sat all alone, revolving in myself The word that is the symbol of myself, The mortal limit of the Self was loosed, And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and yet no shade of doubt, But utter clearness, and thro...
Page 253 - In the whole world there is no study, except that of the originals, so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
Page 177 - That Self cannot be gained by the Veda, nor by understanding, nor by much learning. He whom the Self chooses, by him the Self can be gained.
Page 178 - That Self is hidden in all beings and does not shine forth, but it is seen by subtle seers through their sharp and subtle intellect.
Page 167 - That which is that subtile essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O .SVetaketu, art it.
Page 76 - Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; And my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 194 - ... it cannot become the object of perception, because it does not possess qualities such as form and the like, and as it is devoid of characteristic signs, it does not lend itself to inference and the other means of right knowledge.
Page 166 - I am this or that river, in the same manner, my son, all these creatures, when they have come back from the True, know not that they have come back from the True. Whatever these creatures are here, whether a lion, or a wolf, or a boar, or a worm, or a midge, or a gnat, or a mosquito, that they become again and again.