The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

The Religions of India eBook

Edward Washburn Hopkins
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about The Religions of India.

     [Footnote 57:  Or C[=a]r[=i]raka-m[=i]m[=a]msa, or
     Brahma-m[=i]m[=a]ms[=a] (m[=i]m[=a][=m.]sa, reflexion,
     philosophy).]

     [Footnote 58:  Kapila’s system, usually known as the
     S[=a]nkhya.]

     [Footnote 59:  And attributed to Pata[=n.]jali.  Compare
     Deussen, System des Ved[=a]nta, p. 20.]

     [Footnote 60:  Born In 788.  But some scholars refer him to
     the seventh century.  See IA. xiii. 95; xvi. 41.  His name, a
     title of Civa, indicates his nominal sect.]

     [Footnote 61:  For the meaning of Ved[=a]nta (whether ’end of
     Veda,’ or ‘goal of Veda’) compare Deussen, loc. cit. p. 3,
     note (above, p. 253, note).]

[Footnote 62:  The Supreme Spirit or All-Spirit is either purely non-dualistic or qualifiedly non-dualistic; in the latter event he is, says the sectary, identical with Vishnu, who may be represented either by Krishna or R[=a]ma (sub-sects).  Pure non-duality (unconditioned [=a]tm[=a]) was taught by Cankara.]
[Footnote 63:  Gough, Philosophy of the Upanishads..  Compare Williams, loc. cit.  In our own view the unsystematic Upanishads teach both doctrines (above, p. 228, note).]
[Footnote 64:  Before K[=a]m[=a]nuja it was taught by C[=a]ndilya that brahma (and the individual spirit) was conditioned, a doctrine supposed to be that of the old Bh[=a]gavatas or P[=a][.n]car[=a]tras; but this is quite uncertain.  The C[=a]ndilyan chapter of the Ch[=a]ndogya Upanishad (above, p. 221) may be thus interpreted, vis, that the (conditioned) individual spirit is identical with brahma.]

     [Footnote 65:  Thibaut, Introduction to the Ved[=a]nta
     S[=u]tras
, SBE.  XXXIV. p.  XXXI; Deussen, System des
     Ved[=a]nta
, p.469.]

     [Footnote 66:  Philosophical illusion, m[=a]n[=a], appears
     first in late Upanishads.]

[Footnote 67:  The author of the Dabist[=a]n (seventeenth century) tells a Berkeleyan story in regard to Cankara’s doctrine of illusion.  His enemies wished to test his belief in his own philosophy; so they drove an elephant at him, on which the philosopher ran away.  “Ho!” they jeered, “Did you not maintain that all was a mere illusion?  Then an elephant is illusion.  Yet you take to flight before it.”  “Yes,” replied the philosopher, “all is illusion; there was no elephant, and there was no flight” (II. 4).]

     [Footnote 68:  The Sm[=a]rta (orthodox) Brahman believes, on
     the other hand, that Vishnu, Civa, and Brahm[=a] are all
     mere forms of the Supreme [=A]lm[=a].]

     [Footnote 69:  If Mohammed were regarded as one with Allah
     there would be an Occidental parallel to the Krishna and
     R[=a]ma sects.]

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