Pessimism & Life's Ideal: The Hindu Outlook and a Challenge (with a Criticism of Life and an Interpretation of History) |
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absolute chastity absolute poverty according admit Adwaita-vada anandam anti-social Arya Samaj ascetic morality asceticism become a Sannyasin believe Bengal Bergson Bhagawan Ramakrishna Bhakti Brahmo Samaj C. F. Andrews called cause Christian civilisation conception creed desire dharma difference disciple discontent doctrine of Maya ethical proof evil fact feeling grihasthasram grihi Heaven Hebraism Hegel Hegelian Hindu Hinduism house-holder human Huxley ideal India interpretation James Karma live Mahatma Gandhi married Maya-vada means Meliorism melioristic melioristic hope mism Moksha Monism Mono-theism Mukti Nature never Nirvana Optimism optimistic Pantheism path Pessimism pessimistic philosophy poet's poets political possible Protestant question Rabindranath Raja Rammohan Rajarshi realisation reform religious experience renounced sannyasa Sannyasin science and evolution sects sense social sorrow souls spirit Sri Krishna Swami Vivekananda talk term texts theism theistic theology thing tion total renunciation true Hindu truth Universal Religion Upanishads Vairagya Vaishnava Vedanta Vedas voice West Western Wordsworth
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Page 38 - Rather do we freely acknowledge that what remains after the entire abolition of will is for all those who are still full of will certainly nothing; but, conversely, to those in whom the will has turned and has denied itself, this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways— is nothing.
Page 9 - Like to the apples on the Dead Sea shore, All ashes to the taste.
Page 21 - That is the glass wherein we may take the best view of ourselves, because it at once represents both what we are and what we ought to be ; what we are in ourselves, and what we are by the grace of God ; what are our frames, actions, and ways, and what is their defect in the sight of God. And a higher instruction what to pray for, or how to pray, cannot be given us, Ps. xix. 7-9. Some imagine that to
Page 14 - Romanes lecture pointing out the disharmony between evolution and ethics, he received a severe moral shock, followed by deep depression, and from that shock and depression he has never wholly recovered.
Page 35 - India, though in justice to him it must be said that he was not a snob but had self-respect enough to stand in def.
Page 18 - The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has not where to lay his head.
Page 34 - Christian morality is not Duty for Duty's sake but Duty for the sake of Heaven and Duty from fear of Hell.