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Brahmajijnasa or an Inquiry into the Philosophical Basis of Theism

1916

Of that system the present book gives the metaphysical basis the Philosophy of Brcihmaisrn shows the doctrinal ethical and social development Brahmascidhan indicates the scidhans or spiritual exercises and the Vedanta and its Relation to Modern Thought and Krishna and the Gitci define the relation to the elder Theism of the country as presented in the Prasthcinatrayam the three Vedantic insti [...] The self is conscious of itself as the subject the knower and of the darkness as the object the known ; the self reveals itself as consciousness. [...] However let the reader see now that in this fundamental characteristic of the self —consciousness —there is a sort of distinction or difference—a difference as it were of the root and the branch of the support and the suported. [...] As self-consciousness is the necessary support of the consciousness of darkness so is it of the consciousness of colour ; the latter is not a bit more independent than the former. [...] In the knowledge of colour the whole content involved is “ I know colour.” If the reader has any doubt of the matter he has only to apply the test already proposed and he will see that to suppose that the knowledge of colour is possible without the knowledge of self is an inadvertence.
philosophy religion
Pages
267
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144813
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-v Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Frontmatter
i-ii Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Chapter I The Self and the Not-Self
1-89 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Chapter II The Temporal and the Eternal
90-145 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Chapter III Unity and Difference
146-167 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Chapter IV The Perfect and the Imperfect
168-198 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Supplementary Chapters
199-255 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Backmatter
i-i Sitanath Tattvabhushan view

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