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Lectures on the Theism of the Upanishads and other Subjects

1921

waking dreaming dreamless sleep and a fourth state the basis of Upanishadic Theology—Dialogue between Janaka and Yajnavalkya on the same—Yajnavalkya's teaching on Absolute Monism and the merging of the finite self in the Infinite—Dialogue between Indra and Prajapati—Teaches qualified Monism and the pesistence of the finite in reLtion to the Infinite—Personal reltions of the two recognised [...] But it may be supposed from the way in which he reduces the innumerable diffeences of things to three primary elements that the conception which guides him is that of su* The five vital airs the five organs of knowledge the five of action and manas."8 THE THEISM OF THE UPANISHADS stance that the differences are conceived by him as so many attributes inhering in the primary elements as [...] Behold not for the sake of the wife is the wife dear but for the sake of the self is the wife dear." In this strain Yajnavakya speaks of sons wealth the BrAhma.ta caste to which he belonged the Kshatriya caste which"26 THE THEISM OF THE UPANISHADS was next to his and to which his patron Janaka belonged and then the worlds the deities the creatures and all things in general as dear [...] As the circumference of the wheel of car is placed on the spokes and the spokes on the nave so are these elements of the objective world placed on the elements of consciousness and the elements of consciousness placed on life. [...] It will thus he seen even at this initial stage of our discussion that the system of the Upanishads cannot he identified as it is erroneously done both in this country and in the west with the doctrine of unity without difference with its ncessary corollaries —Monasticism as the ideal of earthly life the denial of worship in the true sense and the final annihilation of the indivdual s
philosophy religion
Pages
190
Published in
Pakistan
SARF Document ID
sarf.146856
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-viii Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Lecture I the Idealism of the Upanishads
1-35 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Lecture II the God of the Upanishads
36-66 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Lecture III Ethical and Emotional Religion in the Upanishads
67-105 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Lecture IV Modern Theism in the Light of Upanishadic Theism
106-133 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Lecture V the Religious Aspect of Hegel’s Philosophy
134-148 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view
Lecture VI Hegel’s View of Theism and Christianity
149-181 Sitanath Tattvabhushan view

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