The Thirteen Principal Upanishads: Translated from the Sanskrit with an Outline of the Philosophy of the Upanishads and an Annotated BibliographyMilford, 1921 - 539 pages |
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... reach in a thoroughly grounded explanation of experience . The intelligent and sympathetic discrimination of these ele- ments will constitute a philosophic work of the first importance . As a preliminary step to that end , the mass of ...
... reach in a thoroughly grounded explanation of experience . The intelligent and sympathetic discrimination of these ele- ments will constitute a philosophic work of the first importance . As a preliminary step to that end , the mass of ...
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... reach that ultimate unity of reality which was dimly foreseen long before in the Rig - Veda and which had been the goal of all the succeeding speculations . What is it — we pause and ask — that has now been reached ? On the one hand an ...
... reach that ultimate unity of reality which was dimly foreseen long before in the Rig - Veda and which had been the goal of all the succeeding speculations . What is it — we pause and ask — that has now been reached ? On the one hand an ...
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... reach the goal of an absolute unity . This was a wonderful discovery , intuitions of which had flashed out here and there , but which was forced upon them for adoption by the limit which they had reached along the life of ...
... reach the goal of an absolute unity . This was a wonderful discovery , intuitions of which had flashed out here and there , but which was forced upon them for adoption by the limit which they had reached along the life of ...
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... reaches the highest light and appears with his own form - He is the Soul ! That is the immortal , the fearless . That is Brahma . The name , verily , of that Brahma is the Real .... Day by day , verily , he who knows this goes to the ...
... reaches the highest light and appears with his own form - He is the Soul ! That is the immortal , the fearless . That is Brahma . The name , verily , of that Brahma is the Real .... Day by day , verily , he who knows this goes to the ...
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... reach that unity with the Self . He does it also in death , the consummation of unification , for then the diversity and illusoriness of sense - knowledge and separateness are overcome . When this self comes to weakness and to ...
... reach that unity with the Self . He does it also in death , the consummation of unification , for then the diversity and illusoriness of sense - knowledge and separateness are overcome . When this self comes to weakness and to ...
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Agni Agnihotra Aitareya Upanishad Ajātaśatru assuredly Atharva-Veda Ātman Atman Soul austerity becomes bhūta bliss body born Brahma Brāhmaṇa breath prāṇa breathing spirit Bṛih Chand Chandogya Chandogya Upanishad Chant Commentary of Sankara conception dear death desire divinity doctrine earth essence evil father fire Gārgi Gautama gods goes heart hymn Imperishable India Indra intelligence Janaka Kaṭha Katha Upanishad Kaush Kena KHANDA knower knows light Lord Maitri meditation mind moon Mund Mundaka Upanishad Naciketas oblation one's pantheism philosophy Prajapati prajñā prāna Praśna procreation quarters of heaven reverence Rig-Veda sacred knowledge sacrifice Sama-Veda Sāman Sanskrit seer semen shining Soul Atman space speech stanza student of sacred supreme Śvet syllable Tait Taittiriya Upanishad things Thou art thought translation truly truth Udgitha understand unity unto Upanishads Vedanta Vedas verily verse vital breaths whole world wind word world-ground worship Yājñavalkya Yajur-Veda yonder
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Page 71 - From the unreal lead me to the real; from darkness lead me to light; from death lead me to immortality
Page 335 - There the eye goes not ; Speech goes not, nor the mind. We know not, we understand not How one would teach It.
Page 290 - That from whence these beings are born, that by which, when born, they live, that into which they enter at their death, try to know that. That is Brahman.
Page 247 - That which is the finest essence - this whole world has that as its soul. That is Reality. That is Atman (Soul). That art thou, Svetaketu.
Page 119 - Verily, O GargI, that Imperishable is the unseen Seer, the unheard Hearer, the unthought Thinker, the ununderstood Understander. Other than It there is naught that sees. Other than It there is naught that hears. Other than It there is naught that thinks. Other than It there is naught that understands. Across this Imperishable, O Gnrgl, is space woven, warp and woof.
Page 260 - 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 51 - These rivers. my dear. flow. the Eastern toward the East. the Western toward the West. They go just from the ocean to the ocean. They become the ocean itself. As there they know not "I am this one.' 'I am that one" — even so. indeed. my dear. all creatures here. though they have come forth from Being.
Page 252 - For if there were no speech, neither right nor wrong would be known, neither the true nor the false, neither the good nor the bad, neither the pleasant nor the unpleasant. Speech makes us understand all this. Meditate on speech. 2. "He who meditates on speech as Brahman, is, as it were, lord and master as far as speech reaches — he who meditates on speech as Brahman.
Page 233 - Accordingly, those who are of pleasant conduct here — the prospect is, indeed, that they will enter a pleasant womb, either the womb of a Brahman, or the womb of a Kshatriya, or the womb of a Vaisya. But those who are of stinking conduct here — the prospect is, indeed, that they will enter a stinking womb, either the womb of a dog, or the womb of a swine, or the womb of an outcast (candala).
Page 81 - Soul (A (man) alone in the form of a Person. Looking around, he saw nothing else than himself. He said first :