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Studies in Vedanta

1924

Religious teachers like Swami Vivekananda have made the Vedanta the basis of a new and expansive Hinduism in contrast to the rigid system of caste and custom which it has come to mean in the eyes of the vast majority of those who go by the name of Hindus. [...] THE Indian Vedanta (Which term includes the Sankhya and the Yoga systems) had long before the beginning of the Christian era reached a stage of development which should have ere this received its due share of appreciation at the hands of European thinkers and the fact should have been long ago realised that it was one of the best systems if not the best which could be made the basis of a u [...] The appaently inconsistent utterances in the Upanishads the difficulty of understanding the terminology of the ancient writers and of following with patience the dialectics used by them the comparative indiffeence of European thinkers as a class to any thing that is Indian— all these have more or less contributed to make the Vedanta as unattractive as it is difficult. [...] It is only when the sense of individual and personal egohood (Ahankritih aTtTf.: ) has become completely extinct and the great truth Tat-twam-asi (that thou art) fully realised by self-experience that the true character of the Supreme Self the identity of the Idividual Self with that Self and the illusoriness of the world as a selsubsisting externality become intelligible and acquire a m [...] 11 This Atman (Brahma) is the totality of the Real and Unreal... The Unreal portion of it is that which is marked off by Avidyd [Syam atmd paramdrthdparamartharitpah.. tasya aparamarthrapam avidydkritam]." The very idea that Brahma is the Samavelyeel and Updeldna keiran a2 the inseparable and substantial cause of the Universe implies the idea of Becoming and an intimate and constant r
philosophy religion
Pages
234
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143200
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xii Vasudev Kirtikar view
Chapter I The Leading Ideas of the Vedanta
1-5 unknown view
Chapter II The Vedanta and its Hegelian Critics
6-31 unknown view
Chapter III The Great Enigma
32-50 unknown view
Chapter IV Knowing and Being
51-73 unknown view
Chapter V Tat-Twam-Asi' and Western Thought
74-97 unknown view
Chapter VI Pantheism and the Vedanta
98-110 unknown view
Chapter VII The Ethics of the Vedanta
111-131 unknown view
Chapter VIII Indian Asceticism
132-149 unknown view
Chapter IX Mysticism
150-173 unknown view
Chapter X Avidya: Nescience
174-182 unknown view
Chapter XI Sat-Asat (Being and Not-Being)
183-194 unknown view
Index
i-xxviii unknown view

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