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Sreegopal Basumallik Fellowship Lectures for 1929. A Study of the Vedanta

1937

According to the terms of the Fellowship I was enjoined to deal especially with the place occupied by the Vedanta in the philosophical systems of the world and of its merits as compared with the Western schools of thought. ' The 'conditions, while mapping out the course of my treatment of the subject and offering a chartered freedom in the mode of presentation, were none the less welcome to me. [...] LECTURE II 'ME VEDANTA IN THE HARING The 13gveda as the philosophic ancestor of the Vedanta in its growing ' dissatisfaction with the gods of tradition' and the assertion of the unity' of the gods and of the world '—The myth- making of the 1. ?gveda not necessarily subversive of its truth-claim—Danger of exaggerating this truth- claim in non-recognition of levels of truth in the PAGE 1-83XV1 CPONT [...] What lends eounte-16 A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE VEDANTA nance to the much-liteded re-orientation of the whole, and concentration on this aspect of the meaning, is the light that proceeds from the dis- covery of a radical affinity and perfect equivalence of meaning between the Sanskrit word anta ' and its English counterpart end ' in the rendering of the term Vedanta as the end of the Vedas. ' Start [...] Premising that philosophy in India shows its beginnings as often in the ex- pression of scepticism ' [as in its ` earliest poetry 1, lie proceeds to observe that the positive side of the tendency of the Rgveda to dissatisfaction with the gods of tradition is to be seen in the assertion of the unity of the gods and of the world. [...] Indeed, it is not possible,, within the meaning of the law of development, to have the flower along with the fruit, for the simple reason that the decay of the flower is the condition of the appearance of the fruit.
philosophy religion
Pages
425
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xviii Saroj Das view
Lecture I Introduction
1-33 unknown view
Lecture II The Vedanta in the Making
34-73 unknown view
Lecture III From Authority to Freedom: from Sruti to Anubhuti
74-107 unknown view
Lecture IV An Approach Through Epistemology
108-139 unknown view
Lecture V Analysis of Experience
140-168 unknown view
Lecture VI The Dialectic of the Vedanta
169-205 unknown view
Lecture VII Brahman and Maya : The Metaphysics of the Vedanta
206-238 unknown view
Lecture VIII Isvara and Brahman : God and the Absolute
239-269 unknown view
Lecture IX Isvara as Creator and Creation as Lila : The Theism of the Vedanta
270-302 unknown view
Lecture X Jiva and Jagat : Individual and the World
303-337 unknown view
Lecture XI The Ethics of the Vedanta
338-371 unknown view
Lecture XII The Cultural Value of the Vedanta: A Retrospect
372-404 unknown view
Index
405-405 unknown view
Extracts from Opinions
1-2 unknown view

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