The Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India |
Contents
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The Sankhya System | 53 |
The Vedanta System | 83 |
Patanjalis Yoga System | 115 |
The Minor Systems | 145 |
Buddhism | 166 |
Sufiism | 209 |
The Religions of India Part I | 239 |
Hindu Wonder Working Lesson XII The Vedas and Glossary of Sanscrit Terms | 301 |
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Absolute action Advaitist ancient appearance Aryan aspect atoms avatar Avidya Axioms Bhakti Bliss Brahman Buddha Buddhism called cause centuries ceremonies claim conception Consciousness considered cults Deity Desire Divine doctrine emanated Energy eternal existence fact fakir feat followers forms fundamental Gautama gods Guna held higher highest Hindu mind Hindu Philosophy Hindu thought hold human idea Ignorance illusion illusory incarnation India individual souls influence Inner Teachings Ishwara Kapila Karma known Krishna Kundalini lesson Lust-of-Life manifestation material matter Maya means Meditation mental methods nature original orthodox Patanjali Personal phenomenal universe plane Prakriti Prana principles psychic Purusha Purva Mimansa race Raja Yoga Reality reason regarded religion religious sacred Sages Samsara Sankhya Sankhya System sects sense Shakta Shiva Spirit student subtle Sufi Supreme symbol taught term things thinkers thou tion true Truth Upanishads Vaisheshika Vaishnavas Vedanta Vedantists Vedas Vishnu Western mind words worship Yoga System Yogi Yogi Ramacharaka Yogins
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Page 6 - earliest attempt on record to give an answer, from reason alone, to the mysterious questions which arise in every thoughtful mind about the origin of the world, the nature and relations of man and his future destiny...
Page 4 - When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East, above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe, we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which the European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.
Page 8 - God, the sole author of all good in us, is not, as in the Old Testament, a Being contrasted with and distinct from us, but rather . . . our divine self. This and much more we may learn from the Upanishads: we shall learn the lesson if we are willing to put the finishing touch to the Christian consciousness, and to make it on all sides consistent and complete.