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Three Lectures on the Vedanta Philosophy (Classic Reprint)
Three Lectures on the Vedanta Philosophy - Classic Reprint Author:F. Max Muller THREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURES on the vedAnta philosophy LECTURE I. Origin of the VedAnta Philosophy. The Importance of Philosophy. I am fully aware of the difficulties which I shall have to encounter in trying to enlist your interest, nay, if possible, your sympathy, for an ancient system of Indian Philosophy, the Ved&nta Philosophy. It is no easy... more » task, even within the walls of this scientific Institution, to obtain a hearing for a mere system of philosophy, whether new or old. The world is too busy to listen to purely theoretical speculations; it wants exciting experiments and, if possible, tangible results. And yet I remember one who ought to be well known to all of you in this place, I remember our dear friend Tyndall, rejoicing over a new theory,
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS; FIRST LECTURE Origin of the VedAnta Philosophy; PAGE; The Importance of Philosophy i; What is important and what is merely curious 2; The Importance of the Ved&nta Philosophy 6 Opinions of the VedSnta by Schopenhauer, Sir W Jones,; Victor Cousin, F Schlegel 8; The Vedlnta, both Philosophy and Religion , r 1; The Upanishads as Ved&nta15; The Four Stages of Life 18; Relation of the Soul (Atman) to Brahman (the Parama-; sltman) 20; Unsystematic Character of the Upanishads 22 Growth of Religious and Philosophic Thought before; the Upanishads 25; Belief in one God 27; Two Forms of the VedSnta 29; The Upanishads treated as Revealed, not as Historical; Books 32; Moral Preparation for the Study of the Vedinta 36; Mistrust in the Evidence of the Senses 40; Metaphorical Language of the Upanishads 42; vi; Table of Contents; SECOND LECTURE The Soul and God; FACE; Extracts from the Upanishads 47; I From the Ka/$a Upanishad 47; II From the Maitrayawa Upanishad 55; Ankara's Analysis of Subject and Object 6i; The Inheritance of the Veda1 nta 71; No Esoteric VedSnta 72; Relation between the Higher Br&hman and the Lower; Brahman 8« less