The Hindu-Aryan Theory on Evolution and Involution: Or, The Science of Raja-yogaFunk & Wagnalls Company, 1908 - 77 pages |
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Akasa ancient Hindu-Aryan Art of Raja-Yoga attain to Atonement Avahana Sakti Bhagavad-Gita Bhuta body Sthula-Sarira Brahman called carbonic acid causes the existence Conscious Energy Vritti Cosmic Conscious Energy Cosmic Ego Iswara Cosmic Matter Mula Cosmos Efficient Cause expiate Five Sense Forces Five Special Sense Five Vital Elements Five Vital Sense grade Guna higher sphere Hindu Hindu-Aryans Holy Man Jivan-Mukta Illusory Force India Individual Conscious Energy Individual Ego Jiva-Atma Indryas Intellect Buddhi invisible Involution Karma Kosa Matter Mula Prakriti Max Müller Maya Maya-Kosa meaning Mental Matter Satva meritorious deeds Mind Manas minutes it creeps Moksha Monism Mukti or Moksha organs of sense Pancha-Prana perform philosophy Prana Prana-Maya previous deeds Primordial Matter Rajo-Guna Sakti Sanchita Karma Sarira Science of Raja-Yoga Serpentine Force Special Sense Forces student Sustaining Body Prana-Maya-Kosa Taijasan Tamo-Guna theories tion Transforming Force Vikshepa-Sakti Udana unmeritorious Vayu Vedanta Viswan Vital Sense Forces Vital Sense Matter Vyana
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Page 76 - And if I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human, a life, not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life — again I should point to India.
Page 76 - Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.
Page 76 - If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India...
Page 74 - In the whole world there is no study 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 76 - India. If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow — in some parts a very paradise on earth — I should point to India.
Page 75 - 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 76 - I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant— I should point to India.
Page 75 - Even the loftiest philosophy of the Europeans, the idealism of reason, as it is set forth by Greek philosophers, appears, in comparison with the abundant light and vigour of Oriental idealism, like a feeble Promethean spark in the full flood of heavenly glory of the noonday sun — faltering and feeble, and ever ready to be extinguished.
Page 74 - The six philosophical schools, whose principles are explained in the Dersana Sastra, comprise all the metaphysics of the old Academy, the Stoa, the Lyceum; nor is it possible to read the Vedanta, or the many fine compositions in illustration of it, without believing, that Pythagoras and Plato derived their sublime theories from the same fountain with the sages of India.