Pantheism and the Value of Life: With Special Reference to Indian Philosophy |
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abstract acosmism admit aspect assertion Atman attain attempt attitude becomes bhakti bliss Brahman Brahmo Samaj Brahmoism character Chhandogya conception connection consciousness deity deliverance denial denied described desire distinction divine doctrine effect elements emphasized ethical evil existence feel finite freedom further Gītā give gods highest Hindu human idea ideal identified identity illusion illusory Indian philosophy individual influence intellectual Katha Upanishad knowledge matter Max Müller māyā means merely metaphysical mind monism moral mystical naturalistic Pantheism nature negation negative ness object optimism ordinary experience ourselves pain Pantheism passages personality pessimism pessimistic point of view polytheism position possible predicates principle problem progress Rāmānuja reach reality realize reference regarded relation religion religious Sādhanā Sankara Sankhya seems sense simply soul Spinoza spirit stage Stoic Stoicism Sūtras teaching tendency theism theistic things thought tion true truth ultimate unity universe unreal Upani Upanishads Vedanta Vedas Vishnu whole worship
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Page 11 - He, like every other man, may properly consider himself as one of the myriad agencies through whom works the Unknown Cause ; and when the Unknown Cause produces in him a certain belief, he is thereby authorized to profess and act out that belief.
Page 247 - We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before everything else, because our souls see it is good.
Page 272 - I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours...
Page 247 - The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give her the wages of going on, and not to die.
Page 244 - Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Page 491 - He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the path-maker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust. Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!
Page 556 - In the whole world there is no study, except that of the originals, so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
Page 491 - Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut? Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee! He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.
Page 313 - And he who knows me thus, by no deed of his is his life harmed : not by the murder of his mother, not by the murder of his father, not by theft, not by the killing of a Brahman. If he is going to commit a sin, the bloom does not depart from his face.
Page 487 - HE whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around ; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow.