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The Aryan Path August 1933

1933

From the emperor down to the mass of the people all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides." THE LIMITATIONS OF SPECULATIVE THOUGHT [ Edmond Holmes is the author of The Creed of Buddha and The Creed of Christ among other volumes. [...] If we define beforehand the universe the All of Being in terms of the sensexperience of the standardized man and forbid speculative thought to look beyond that horzon we beg the greatest of all questions in the act of asking it. [...] On the one hand it includes the study of the Vedas in its lists of virtues because it is a means to the knowledge of God and speaks of the divine origin of the Vedanta ; but on the other hand it says that the vision of God can be gained not through the Vedas nor through gifts and penances but by exclusive devotion to the Lord. [...] And it is interesting to note that the Uttara Gita which is supposed to be the sequel to the Bhagavad Gita—though a very poor sequel—asserts the spiritual freedom of man in rather extrvagant terms:— A boat is necessary until one gets to the other side of the river ; but when a man once crosses the stream of what use is the boat to him ? As a husbandman throws away the husk after threshing the [...] It is necessary I think to detach India from the general concept of the " East " and to associate Idian culture with the other great cultures of the world the Egytian the Greek and the Roman.
philosophy religion
Pages
78
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120051
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
The Limit of Responsibility
513-515 unknown view
The Limitations of Speculative Thought
516-522 unknown view
The Gita and Spiritual Freedom
523-526 unknown view
Psychology : Indian and Western
527-530 unknown view
The Discoverer of Oxygen
531-535 Dorothy Turner view
The Holy Men of Hindustan
536-539 Paul Brunton view
Spinoza and the Upanishads
540-544 M.S. Modak view
World-Leadership in a Scientific Age
545-548 R.G. Smith view
Religion a Help and a Hindrance
549-551 Alban Windgery view
Two English Alchemists George Ripley and Thomas Norton
552-555 E.J. Holmyard view
A Novelist With a Message
555-560 Geoffrey West view
Red Philosophy and Red Politics
560-571 unknown view
Correspondence
572-580 unknown view
Ends and Sayings
581-584 Samananda view
Backtmatter
i-ii unknown view

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