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Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India October 1927

1927

But it gives a beautiful panaromic view of the development of Indian mysticism.—Editor.] THE MYSTICISM OF THE UPANISHADS AND THE MYSTICISM OF THE MIDDLE AGE In the previous volumes of our Encyclopaedic History of Indian Philosophy we have traced the development of Indian thought from its very dimmest beginnings in the times of the Rigveda downwards through the great philosophical conflicts of The [...] But the mysticism of the Upanishads was different from the myst3"450 PRABUDDHA BHARATA cism of the Middle Age inasmuch as it was merely the tidal wave of the philosophic imaginings of the ancient seers while the other was the natural outcome of a heart full of piety and devotion a consciousness of sin and misery and finally a desire to assimilate itself practically to the Divine. [...] THE MYSTICISM OF THE BHAGAVADGITA AND THE MYSTICISM OF THE MIDDLE AGE Before however mysticism could be brought from being the private possession of the few to be the property of all it must pass through the intermediate stage of the moral awakening of the people to a sense of duty which would not be incompatible with philosophical imagination on the one hand and democratisation of mystical ex [...] THE PERSONALITY OF KRISHNA The personality of Krishna which looms large behind the teachings of the Bhagavadgita is indeed a personality which antiquarians and critics have sought in vain to construct from all the available evidence from the times of the Vedas to the times of the Puranas. [...] Suka in whose mouth the philosophico-mystical doctrines of the Bhagavata are put is the type of a great mystic who practises the philosophy that he teaches whose mystical utterances go to constitute the whole of the Bhagavata and who sums up his teaching briefly in the 87th chapter of the Xth Skandha of the Bhagavata where he points out the necesity of a Spiritual Teacher of Devotion and
philosophy religion
Pages
53
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120002
Segment Pages Author Actions
Reminiscences of the Holy Mother
433-435 unknown view
Swami Saradananda
436-448 unknown view
The Development of Indian Mysticism Upto the Age of Jnanesvara
449-457 R.D. Ranade view
Moments with Swami Turiyananda in America
457-462 Atulananda view
God Soul and Matter
462-466 Sharvananda view
Seeing India with other Eyes
466-473 unknown view
The Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Mayavati Charitable Dispensary
474-475 unknown view
Notices of Books
475-478 unknown view
News and Reports
478-480 unknown view

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