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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... universal truth.2 Here are found intimations of the inadequacy of mere nature - worship and of the falsity of an empty ceremonialism . Here are expressed the momentous discoveries that the various gods of polytheistic belief are but ...
... universal truth.2 Here are found intimations of the inadequacy of mere nature - worship and of the falsity of an empty ceremonialism . Here are expressed the momentous discoveries that the various gods of polytheistic belief are but ...
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... universal , instead of a particular , world - ground led to a theory which postulated a world - ground that embraced all phenomena as parts of it , and so which gradually identified everything with the world - ground ; ( 2 ) it was felt ...
... universal , instead of a particular , world - ground led to a theory which postulated a world - ground that embraced all phenomena as parts of it , and so which gradually identified everything with the world - ground ; ( 2 ) it was felt ...
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... firmly in mind , the next step with the development of abstract ' thought was probably to conceive of the world as really a Soul ( Atman ) , a universal Soul of which the individual self or soul is a 24 PHILOSOPHY OF THE UPANISHADS.
... firmly in mind , the next step with the development of abstract ' thought was probably to conceive of the world as really a Soul ( Atman ) , a universal Soul of which the individual self or soul is a 24 PHILOSOPHY OF THE UPANISHADS.
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... universal Atman . One says that he venerates the sky as the universal Atman . Aśvapati commends the conception and gives assurance that he is shining like the sky , but a great deal more . The sky would be only his head . The others in ...
... universal Atman . One says that he venerates the sky as the universal Atman . Aśvapati commends the conception and gives assurance that he is shining like the sky , but a great deal more . The sky would be only his head . The others in ...
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... universal Atman imma- nent both in the subjective and in the objective , it is no longer similarities , but parts of a unity or identities . Both he who is here in a person and he who is yonder in the sun - he is one ' ( Tait . 2. 8 ; 3 ...
... universal Atman imma- nent both in the subjective and in the objective , it is no longer similarities , but parts of a unity or identities . Both he who is here in a person and he who is yonder in the sun - he is one ' ( Tait . 2. 8 ; 3 ...
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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 :