... in various philosophical systems, and efforts have been made from time to time to recombine them. Nyaya, Vaisesika, Samkhya, Yoga, Purva Mimamsa and Uttara Mimamsa bear the imprint of the Upanishadic thought, and the last one, in particular, has as its basic text Brahmasutra, which was written by Badarayana, and in which the quintessence of the Upanishads was expounded aphoristically. Brahmasutra ...
... parts in the various philosophical systems and efforts were made from time to time to recombine them. Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Poorva Mimansa and Uttara Mimansa bear the imprint of the Upanishadic thought, and the last one, particularly has as its basic text, BrahmasOtra, which was composed by Badarayan, and in which the quintessence of the Upanishads was expounded aphoristically- Brahmasutra ...
... substance and versification, subsequent certainly to the Chhandogya, Brihadaranyaka and perhaps to the Taittiriya and Aitareya, but certainly the most antique of the extant metrical Upanishads. Upanishadic thought falls naturally into two great periods; in one, the earlier, it still kept close to its Vedic roots, reflected the old psychological system of the Vedic Rishis and preserved what may be called ...
... Monism maintains that god is also the stuff of the world. According to monism He is like the spider which makes its web out of itself. This is the basic thought of India, Vedic thought and Upanishadic thought. 5. Polytheism: Belief in or worship in more than one god. 6. Hierophanies: n. Sacred revelation. A hierophant was a priest in ancient Greece and more specifically the high priest ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 8 ON UPANISHADIC THOUGHT Yama - Nachiketa (Katha Upanishad) VAJASRAVAS desired that he would give away all he had. He had a son named Nachiketas. As the boy saw the gifts being given, his heart was filled with respect and devotion, and he pondered: "The realm of undelight ...
... and its transmigration. He travelled much including to Egypt and Persia, but it is not certain that he came as far as India. What is certain, however, is that he was conversant with Vedic and Upanishadic thoughts. How? Well, because Indian sages had meetings with Greek philosophers at Athens! For, it is known that exponents of literature, science and philosophy travelled regularly between Greece and ...
... Savitri is not always the Vedic Mantra. It has the richness of Kalidasian lyricism—the soul of delight rising to the intensities of the truth-beautiful—as much as the luminous density of the Upanishadic idea-thought and idea-force and idea-joy in the wideness of the truth-idea, the real-idea. It is that which does not get affected by trivialities of the turn of our phrases, by these modalities, by our... harmony. Thus there is nothing mystic or Upanishadic in Shakespeare's Absent thee from felicity awhile And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain and yet the lines do possess, explains Sri Aurobindo, "the Overhead touch in substance, the rhythm and the feeling". Wordsworth's "The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep" hails from Overmind and is Upanishadic, but is not of the same assuring mass... sound; The hearer understands a form of words And, musing on the index thought it holds, He strives to read it with the labouring mind, But finds bright hints, not the embodied truth: Then, falling silent in himself to know He meets the deeper listening of his soul: The Word repeats itself in rhythmic strains: Thought, vision, feeling, sense, the body’s self Are seized unalterably and ...
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