The Upanishads: The Khândogya-upanishad. The Talavakâra-upanishad. The Aitareya-âranyaka. The Kaushîtaki-brâhmana-upanishad the the Vâgasaneyi-samhitâ-upanishadClarendon Press, 1879 |
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... the study of the ancient religions of the world is ever to assume a really historical character ; and having 1 Works , vol . x , p . 437 . myself grudged no praise to what to my mind is b 2 SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST . xix.
... the study of the ancient religions of the world is ever to assume a really historical character ; and having 1 Works , vol . x , p . 437 . myself grudged no praise to what to my mind is b 2 SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST . xix.
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... mind in its searchings after the Infinite . I can answer for myself and for those who have worked with me , that our translations are truthful , that we have suppressed nothing , that we have varnished nothing , however hard it seemed ...
... mind in its searchings after the Infinite . I can answer for myself and for those who have worked with me , that our translations are truthful , that we have suppressed nothing , that we have varnished nothing , however hard it seemed ...
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... mind was to be led up to higher and higher objects . Thus in one passage we are told at first that Om is the beginning of the Veda , or , as we have to deal with an Upanishad of the Sâma - veda , the beginning of the Sâma - veda , so ...
... mind was to be led up to higher and higher objects . Thus in one passage we are told at first that Om is the beginning of the Veda , or , as we have to deal with an Upanishad of the Sâma - veda , the beginning of the Sâma - veda , so ...
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... mind that , easy as it might be to render word by word , it is difficult , aye , sometimes impossible , to render thought by thought . I shall give one instance only from my own translation of the Upanishads . One of the most important ...
... mind that , easy as it might be to render word by word , it is difficult , aye , sometimes impossible , to render thought by thought . I shall give one instance only from my own translation of the Upanishads . One of the most important ...
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... mind and spirit pass over us unrealised , self and selfs will always ruffle the surface of the mind , and stir up some reflection in the reader . In English to speak even of the I and the Non - I , was till lately considered harsh ; it ...
... mind and spirit pass over us unrealised , self and selfs will always ruffle the surface of the mind , and stir up some reflection in the reader . In English to speak even of the I and the Non - I , was till lately considered harsh ; it ...
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The Upanishads, Vol. 1: The Khandogya-Upanishad, the Talavakara-Upanishad ... Friedrich Max Muller No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 123 - Where one sees nothing else, hears nothing else, understands nothing else, that is the Infinite. Where one sees something else, hears something else, understands something else, that is the finite. The Infinite is immortal, the finite is mortal.
Page 140 - Taking fuel in his hands, he went again as a pupil to Pra</apati. Pra^apati said to him : ' Maghavat, as you went away satisfied in your heart, for what purpose did you come back ? ' " He said : ' Sir, although it is true that that Self is not blind even if the body is blind, nor lame if the body is lame, though it is true that that Self is not rendered faulty by the faults of...
Page 107 - Believe it, my son. That which is the subtile essence, in it all that exists has its Self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, 0 /Svetaketu, art it.' ' Please, Sir, inform me still more,' said the son. ' Be it so, my child,
Page v - I my self have, by a long continued profession, made almost natural to me: I am resolved to be more jealous and suspicious of this religion, than of the rest, and be sure not to entertain it any longer without being convinced by solid and substantial arguments, of the truth and certainty of it.
Page 102 - That which is that subtile essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, Svetaketu, art it.' 'Please, Sir, inform me still more,' said the son. 'Be it so, my child,' the father replied. i. 'Fetch me from thence a fruit of the nyagrodha tree.' 'Here is one, Sir.' 'Break it.
Page 111 - ... what is right and what is wrong; what is true and what is false ; what is good and what is bad...
Page 15 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Page 135 - It is the Self, free from sin, free from old age, from death and grief, from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing but what it ought to desire, and imagines nothing but what it ought to imagine.
Page 140 - Just as we are, well adorned, with our best clothes and clean, thus we are both there, Sir, well adorned, with our best clothes and clean." Prajapati said: "That is the Self, this is the immortal, the fearless, this is Brahman.
Page 92 - ... and as, my dear, by one nugget of gold all that is made of gold is known, the difference being only a name, arising from speech, but the truth being that all is gold...