The Hindu View of Life. Upon Lectures Delivered at Manchester College  Oxford  1926

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The Hindu View of Life. Upon Lectures Delivered at Manchester College Oxford 1926

1927

Hinduism is the religion not only of the Vedas but of the Epics and the Purioas.z By accepting the significance of the different intuitions of reality and the different scriptures of the peoples living in India (sarvigamaulmänya) Hinduism has come to be a tapestry of the most variegated tissues and almost endless diversity of hues. [...] The bewildering polytheism of the masses and the ucompromising monotheism of the classes are for the Hindu the expressions of one and the same force at different levels. [...] bathinplaces) those of the more advanced arc in the heavens those of the children (in religion) are in images of wood and stone but the sage finds his God in his deeper self." 2 " The man of action §nds his God in fire the man of feeling in the heait and the feeblminded in the idol but the strong in spirit find God everywhere." 3 The seers see the Supreme in the self and not in imag [...] The dancing of Krwa on Kiliya's head represents the subordintion if not the displacement of serpent worship 40 THE HINDU VIEW OF LIFE Rima's breaking of the bow of giva 'signifies the conflict between the Vedic ideal and the cult of Siva wo soon became the god of the south (Dak§inamikti). [...] The Vedic culture which resembles that of the Homeric Greeks or the Celtic Irish at the beginning of the Christian era or that of the pre-Christian Teutons and Slays becomes transformed in theCONFLICT OF RELIGIONS Epics int8 the Hindu culture through the influence of the Dravidians.
philosophy religion
Pages
136
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142387
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
1-10 S. Radhakrishnan view
Lecture I. Religious Experience : Its Nature and Content
11-33 unknown view
Lecture II. Conflict of Religions: The Hindu Attitude
34-60 unknown view
Lecture III. Hindu Dharma : I
61-92 unknown view
Lecture IV. Hindu Dharma: II
93-130 unknown view
Index
131-133 unknown view
Backmatter
i-iii unknown view

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