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Sreegopal Basumallik Fellowship Lectures for 1929. Towards a Systematic Study of the Vedanta

1931

According to the terms of the Fellowship I was enjoined to deal 'especially with the place occupied by the Vediinta in the philosophical systems of the world and of its merits as compared with the Western schools of thought. ' The conditions, while mapping out the course of my treat- ment of the subject and offering a chartered freedom in the mode of presentation, were none the less welcome to me. [...] Accordingly, those who swear by the exclusively chronological aspkt in the meaning of the term `Vedanta' miss entirely the deeper, the more important, that is to say, the dynamic element in the fullness of its meaning. "X2 A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE VEDANTA What lends countenance to the much-needed re-orientation of the whole, and concentration on this aspect of the meaning, is the light -that proce [...] Indeed, it is not possible, within the meaning of the law of development, to have the flowëi- along with the fruit, for the simple lesson that R4T811: linfefint 1. THE VEDANTA IN THE MAKING 3 the decay of the flower is the condition of the appearance a the fruit. [...] Starting from the Purusha- istihta2 (which, though forming a part of the last matidala of the Itgveda, really belongs to the age of Brahmana speculation), there is to be found a persistent effort to institute a close orrespondence and affinity between the microcosm and the macrocosm. 3 In the Purusha-stikla itself, the gods are made out to be the agents of creation, and the body of the great Purush [...] The parallelism of the macrocosm. , with the microcosm, of the cosmic order (acillidaivatam) with the psychological functions of the man (adhyátmami comes in- for further elabortvion, when the space within the4teart is held to' correspond to cosmic space, the breath of man to the wind, the speech to fire, the -eye to the sun, the ear to the moon, the mind to the lightning.
philosophy religion
Pages
301
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-vi Saroj Das view
Lecture I Introduction
1-25 unknown view
Lecture II The Vedanta in the Making
26-54 unknown view
Lecture III From Authority to Freedom : From Sruti to Anubhuti
55-78 unknown view
Lecture IV An Approach through Epistemology
79-101 unknown view
Lecture V Analysis of Experience
102-122 unknown view
Lecture VI The Dialectic of the Vedanta
123-148 unknown view
Lecture VII Brahman and Maya: The Metaphysics of the Vedanta
149-172 unknown view
Lecture VIII Isvara and Brahman: God and the Absolute
173-194 unknown view
Lecture IX Isvara as Creator and Creation as Lila: The Theism of the Vedanta
195-218 unknown view
Lecture X Jiva and Jagat : Individual and the World
219-243 unknown view
Lecture XI The Ethics of the Vedanta
244-268 unknown view
Lecture XII The Cultural Value of the Vedanta : A Retrospect
269-292 unknown view
Corrigenda
i-iii unknown view

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