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The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy (Classic Reprint) Friedrich Max Muller No preview available - 2017 |
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according activity acts admit ancient argument arises asked Âtman authority become beginning belong body Brahman Buddhi Buddhist called cause century certainly character clear considered desire discussed doctrines doubt earth effect elements eternal existence explained fact five follows give given gods Gotama Greek highest Hindu human idea important India Indian philosophy individual inference instance Isvara Kapila kind knowledge known later light living look Lord Manas means meant mentioned mind nature never Nyâya object once originally passages Patañgali perceived perception period possess possible Prakriti present produced prove Purusha qualities question reasoning refer regard remains represented Samkara Sâmkhya seems sense soul sound supposed Sûtras systems of philosophy taken teaching things thought translation treated true truth understand Upanishads Vaiseshika Veda Vedânta Vedic whole Yoga
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Page 254 - And that a higher gift than grace Should flesh and blood refine, God's presence and his very self, And essence all-divine.
Page 255 - But utter clearness, and thro' loss of Self The gain of such large life as match'd with ours Were Sun to spark — unshadowable in words, Themselves but shadows of a shadow-world.
Page 255 - And more, my son! for more than once when I Sat all alone, revolving in myself The word that is the symbol of myself, The mortal limit of the Self was loosed, And past into the Nameless, as a cloud Melts into Heaven. I touch'd my limbs, the limbs Were strange not mine — and yet no shade of doubt, But utter clearness, and thro...
Page 253 - 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 177 - That Self cannot be gained by the Veda, nor by understanding, nor by much learning. He whom the Self chooses, by him the Self can be gained.
Page 178 - That Self is hidden in all beings and does not shine forth, but it is seen by subtle seers through their sharp and subtle intellect.
Page 167 - That which is that subtile essence, in it all that exists has its self. It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O .SVetaketu, art it.
Page 76 - Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; And my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 194 - ... it cannot become the object of perception, because it does not possess qualities such as form and the like, and as it is devoid of characteristic signs, it does not lend itself to inference and the other means of right knowledge.
Page 166 - I am this or that river, in the same manner, my son, all these creatures, when they have come back from the True, know not that they have come back from the True. Whatever these creatures are here, whether a lion, or a wolf, or a boar, or a worm, or a midge, or a gnat, or a mosquito, that they become again and again.
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| Title | The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy ATLA monograph preservation program |
| Author | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, 1899 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 8 Nov 2006 |
| ISBN | 0524022224, 9780524022221 |
| Length | 618 pages |
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