Beginnings of Hindu Pantheism: An Address, Delivered at the Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, in the Slater Memorial Hall of the Free Academy at Norwich, Connecticut, July 8, 1890Charles W. Sever, 1890 - 24 pages |
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able to live ancient anthropomorphic Aryan family ascetic BEGINNINGS OF HINDU breath Brhad Aranyaka Buddhism called Brahmanas clans counterpart Cvetaketu death departed doctrine exalted follow my think forest-hermit gods grain of millet Greek hearing heaven Hindu mystic HINDU PANTHEISM human Indo-European Indus ishad Jainism Jupiter learned Let thy thinking literature of India Maitri Megasthenes mind morning Narada nature-religion northwest of India nought oblation old Brahman old Upanishads order of student philologists philology Plato Present thyself priestly quietistic Ramatirtha religion Rigveda ritualism sacred cord sacred fire sacrifice sages saith the scripture salt Sanskrit Savitri says scholar silent save spake his father speculation stanza stream of sorrow supreme Atman Supreme Soul Supreme Spirit symbol teach teacher things of sense thou thought thy thinking follow tical treatises tribes true nature ture U. C. BERKELEY UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Veda Vedic Aryans vigorous vital powers voice wind wonder ye been able
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Page 23 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover of the...
Page 24 - They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven; But thou, meek lover of the good! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven.
Page 12 - If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more : circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews ; as touching the law, a Pharisee ; concerning zeal, persecuting the Church ; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Page 22 - ... this Soul of mine within the heart is smaller than a grain of rice, or a barley-corn, or a mustard-seed, or a grain of millet, or the kernel of a grain of millet; this Soul of mine within the heart is greater than the earth, greater than the atmosphere, greater than the sky, greater than these worlds.
Page 17 - Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are.
Page 22 - ... this, who never speaks, and is never surprised, he is myself within the heart, smaller than a corn of rice, smaller than a corn of barley, smaller than a mustard seed, smaller than a canary seed or the kernel of a canary seed.
Page 18 - How have you been able to live without me?" They replied: 'Like mute people, not speaking, but breathing with the breath, seeing with the eye, hearing with the ear, thinking with the mind. Thus we lived.
Page 23 - The doctrine of the absolute unity finds perhaps its most striking expression in Sanskrit in the Katha-Upanishad ; but nowhere, neither in Sanskrit nor in English, has it been presented with more vigor, truthfulness, and beauty of form than by Emerson in his famous lines paraphrasing the Sanskrit passage.
Page 12 - ... life after life and death after death, and we have, in the fifth pre-Christian century, a condition that calls loudly for the protestant intervention of some vigorous spiritual leaders. The call was met by promoters of various religious movements, such as Buddhism, Jainism, and Brahmanic mysticism. There is no abrupt break in the course of development from the old Brahman religion to that of the Upanishads. Under the Brahmanic dispensation there were four orders or stages in the well-rounded...
Page 18 - By its true nature it is absolutely identical with the supreme and all-pervading Spirit of the Universe. There is, in an ancient Vedic hymn used in the ritual of cremation and burial. a verse addressed to the departed: " Let thine eye go to the sun; thy breath to the wind.