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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Page xi
... understand , to explain , and thus to excuse them . To watch in the Sacred Books of the East the dawn of the religious consciousness of man , must always remain one of the most inspiring and hallowing sights in the whole history of the ...
... understand , to explain , and thus to excuse them . To watch in the Sacred Books of the East the dawn of the religious consciousness of man , must always remain one of the most inspiring and hallowing sights in the whole history of the ...
Page xii
... understand . We must face the problem in its completeness , and I confess it has been for many years a problem to me , aye , and to a great extent is so still , how the Sacred Books of the East should , by the side of so much that is ...
... understand . We must face the problem in its completeness , and I confess it has been for many years a problem to me , aye , and to a great extent is so still , how the Sacred Books of the East should , by the side of so much that is ...
Page xiv
... understanding . It might be repeated for some time on similar emergencies , till when it had failed again and again it survived only as a superstitious custom in the memory of priests and poets . Further , it should be remembered that ...
... understanding . It might be repeated for some time on similar emergencies , till when it had failed again and again it survived only as a superstitious custom in the memory of priests and poets . Further , it should be remembered that ...
Page xv
... with the records of the wranglings of the early Councils , if we wish to understand , to some extent at least , the wild confusion of sublime truth with vulgar stupidity that meets us in the pages of SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST . XV.
... with the records of the wranglings of the early Councils , if we wish to understand , to some extent at least , the wild confusion of sublime truth with vulgar stupidity that meets us in the pages of SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST . XV.
Page xix
... understand how they could have arisen , and how they could have exercised for ages an influence over human beings who in all other respects were not inferior to ourselves , nay , whom we are accustomed to look up to on many points as ...
... understand how they could have arisen , and how they could have exercised for ages an influence over human beings who in all other respects were not inferior to ourselves , nay , whom we are accustomed to look up to on many points as ...
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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...