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Critical study of a supercommentary on the Btrhadearrnyakopanirsad, Hindu philosophical classic.
An attempt has been made in this book to reconstruct idealist humanist philosophy on the basis of Eastern and Western metaphysics and the natural sciences. It supports the basic principle of ethical absolutism as opposed to relativism. It analysis the fundamental principles of humanist political thought with reference to sovereignty, obligation and rights.It is hoped that policy-makers and planers in the developing countries will find here an integral world-view and exposition of concrete technics to meet the challanges of the hour.
Throughout human history, and across many religious cultures, offerings are made into fire. The essays collected in Homa Variations provide detailed studies of this practice, known in the tantric world as the "homa," from its inception up to the present.
This volume presents and analysis of the central concept of the Upanisads, viz. the Brahman. This analysis consists in the discussion of an individual's experiences in the three states of waking, dream and sleep and thereby throws light on the nature of the inner sentience in him called the Atman.
The present book aims at clarifying various aspects of Indian philosophy by applying concepts used in text science towards their analysis. Text science attempts to establish universal rules which apply to all forms of human expression. If we regard all human expression, 'including behaviour', as communication, it contains a meaning-system whether it has the form of language or not. The human expression may be classified as language, figure, body action, and so forth; we consider all these forms of expression to be texts, for which there must apply universal rules. The aim of text science is to explain how these rules function throughout various types of texts and thus provide a better unders...
This is a unique work discussing the teachings of four of the great Advaita Acaryas : Gaudapada, Sankara, and histwo disciples, Suresvara and Padmapada. The first three chapters are concerned with the teachings of Gaudapada. These chapters refer to most o
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This study shows how the Brahman obtains as the twofold world - murta 'what has the form' and amurta 'what has no form'. This determines the significance of the Ipanisadic teaching neti neti.
In the traditional manner of Sanskrit works, since it was necessary after BU 2.1, as an laksana portion of the Upanisad, has stated the definition of the brahman. BU 4.3 is to be understood as pariksa grantha, that is: it examines the nature of the Brahman in its pros and cons. This examination demanded detailed discussion of the theories rivalling the Vedanta prove that the Atman (viz. the Brahman) is the (internal) light of all (external) lights and reveals to one the true nature of one`s inner self and of the world of external objects which are but unreal, bringing fearlessness (abhaya) to one.
This book investigates the central metaphysics and epistemology of Advaita. Although the vastness of Advaita literature has grown to immense proportions, there has been a glaring lacuna in unraveling its philosophical, theological and religious implications. This volume undertakes a thematic search on the conception of Ātman in an all-important Advaitic text, the Vivekacūḍāmaṇi , and other supportive texts of the same genre. Walter Menezes aims to revive Advaita as a sound philosophical system by driving away the cloud of negativity associated with it, thereby opening a new chapter in the history of Advaita philosophy.