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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

1951

As said by Bhartrihari 'In enjoyment there is the fear of disease; in social position the fear of falling off; in wealth the fear of (hostile) kings; in honour the fear of humliation; in power the fear of foemen; in beauty the fear of old age; in scriptural erudition the fear of opponents; in virtue the fear of traducers; in body the fear of death. [...] In fact it was during the period of mixed Hinayana Buddhism that the earlier conception of Vinaya as strictly human setting before the moral aspirant the goal of Arhatship as typified in the earthly life of Gautama the Buddha was replaced by the conception of it as superhuman in a final analysis translating the ethical end to the transcendent height of Buddhahood which none may hope to reach exc [...] It is necessary to note here that it was the Sarvästivddins and the Mahasanghikas who popularized the conception of the paramis the virtues which the Bodhisattva must practise for the attainment of Buddhahood. [...] One way of the solution the way that was not adopted but would have been true to the inner spirit of the new religion which Buddha sought to introduce would in the main be the aboltion of the Order of monks. [...] ful hearinglof the common people but earned the bitterest hatred of the officialdom in 'his country and had finally to give himself up to the death of the Cross through the machinations of the rulers in Jerusalem.
philosophy religion
Pages
47
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Letters of Swami Vivekananda
193-195 Vandanananda view
Conversations of Swami Vijnanananda
195-197 Vandanananda view
The Ideal of Renunciation
197-203 Vandanananda view
The Ethical and Social Background of Buddhism
203-207 N.V. Banerji view
The Vedic Religion: A Twofold Way
208-211 Satprakashananda view
Indian Mysticism
212-216 Anirvan view
The Conception of the Sportive Absolute
216-218 Akshaya Banerjea view
The Power of Prayer
219-221 Mohan Sethi view
Studies in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
221-227 Nalini Brahma view
Notes and Comments
227-229 Vandanananda view
Reviews and Notices
230-231 Vandanananda view
News and Reports
232-i Vandanananda view

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