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Sankaracharya.His Life and Teachings with a Translation of Atmabodha

1911

The only person fit to receive such knowledge the only person to whom the communication of such knowledge is really possible and is likely lead to the highest results is one who has passed or is passing through the folowing four-disciplines :—(x) the discrimintionof the phenomenal and the real i.e.; the power or habit of distinguishing God the only permanent object from things phenomena [...] Hence the coditioned state of the soul is created by the sensorium and does not exist in reality.'' But we do not forget that according to San; kara when the individual soul sleepsiaanld the world does not exist for it Brahma the worlsoul wakes and the world exists forshim and even when he also falls asleep at the 'end of each cycle the Over-soul the soul of Bra himself he who know [...] seen in the first of the above extracts waking and dreaming are nearly identical seems to forget himself partly in expounding Sutras 28-32 of Pada I Chapter II of the Vedanta Sutras and insists not only on the difference between waking and dreaming which is quite evident but on the externality of objects to knowledge and writes after the mariner of the Scotch Reid as the popul4r flelief in [...] meaning of the individual's knowledge of its unity with the Universal but the knowledge on the part of a heing distinguished in a sense from the Universal of its essential unity with the latter ? This knowledge cannot be the knowledge of the Infinite itself of its own absolute unity for this it possesses from eternity and is not something that can be even negatively dpendent upon the negatio [...] its unity in spirit with the Infinite or from the :standpoint of the Infinite the ntanifesttion on the part of the latter of its spiritual unity with the finite..
philosophy religion
Pages
78
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141912
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v Sita Datta view
His Life
1-9 unknown view
His Teachings
9-48 unknown view
Atma Bodha or Knowledge of Spirit
49-62 unknown view
A Note on Sankara’s Age
63-72 H.H Wilson view

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