A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy: Being a Systematic Introduction to Indian Metaphysics |
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Absolute Angirasa Āruņi Atman becomes Bhagavadgītā bliss body Brahman breath Brihadaranyaka chapter Chhandogya Upanishad conception consciousness cosmological creation death doctrine earth eternal existence final reality finally fire gods idea immortal Indra intellect Janaka Katha Upanishad Kathopanishad Kaushītaki Kaushitaki Upanishad Kenopanishad knowledge Krishna later Madhva Māyā meditation merely metaphysical mind Monism moral mystic Nachiketas namely nature nishad Not-Being passage path philo philosophy Prajapati Prāņa problem psychological Rāmānuja realisation regarded Rigveda sage Samkhya Sankara Self-consciousness Self-realisation shad sleep soul spiritual supreme Śvetāśvatara teacher theory things thought tion told Transmigration truth ultimate reality universe Upani Upanishad tells Upanishadic philosophers Vedanta verily word Yājñavalkya Yoga अथ आत्मा इति इदं एव एष छां तं तत्र तस्मै तस्य तु ते तै नो पश्यति पुरुषो बृ ब्रह्म ब्रह्मेति भवति मा मुं यथा यदा ये यो रूपं वा वेद वै श्वे सर्व सर्वे सोम्य हि होवाच
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Page 115 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Page 162 - He is made one with Nature. There is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird. He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone ; Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own, Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 194 - boughs," with their buddings and disleafings, — events, things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word ? Its boughs are histories of nations. The rustle of it is the noise of human existence, onwards from of old. It grows there, the breath of human passion rustling through it: — or stormtost.
Page 156 - ... months to the year, from the year to the sun, from the sun to the moon, from the moon to the lightning. There is a person not human, 'He leads them to Brahman.
Page 227 - These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this lifeblood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our ME; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh. That warrior on his strong war-horse, fire flashes through his eyes; force dwells in his arm and heart; but warrior and war-horse are a vision; a revealed Force, nothing more. Stately they tread the Earth, as if it were a firm substance: fool!
Page 5 - For the authors of those great poems which we admire do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.
Page 226 - The answer lies around, written in all colours and motions, uttered in all tones of jubilee and wail, in thousand-figured, thousand-voiced, harmonious Nature : but where is the cunning eye and ear to whom that God-written Apocalypse will yield articulate meaning?
Page 227 - Thus, like a God-created, fire-breathing spirit-host, we emerge from the inane ; haste stormfully across the astonished earth ; then plunge again into the inane.
Page 227 - Creation, says one, lies before us, like a glorious Rainbow; but the Sun that made it lies behind us, hidden from us. Then, in that strange Dream, how we clutch at shadows as if they were substances; and sleep deepest while fancying ourselves most awake!
Page 116 - I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some Eternal Spirit — it being perfectly...