The Philosophy of the Upanishads
Author: Paul Deussen
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paul Deussen
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: S. M. Srinivasa Chari
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Description: The Upanisads which contain lofty philosophical teachings of the great seers constitute the most authoritative sourcebook for the Vedanta system of philosophy. However, there is no unanimity among the ancient exponents of Vedanta regarding the nature of the philosophy adumbrated in the Upanisads. Dr. Chari's scholarly work attempts to make a dispassionate study of the philosophical passages of the fourteen Principal Upanisads by giving due consideration to not only the comments of Samkara, Ramanuja and Madhva, but more importantly, the authoritative views of Badarayana as enshrined in his classic Vedantasutras. In the first part of the book, he presents the important passages of the Upanisads along with English rendering indicating the variations in the interpretation by the three commentators and also discusses their philosophical implications with reference to the Vedanta doctrines developed in the post Upanisadic period. In the second part he has attempted to consolidate the variety of philosophical thoughts scattered all over the Upanisads into coherent doctrines under five broad subjects: Brahman, jivatman, jagat, sadhana, and parama-purusartha. In the final chapter he conclusively establishes on the basis of an objective evaluation of the views of the commentators that the Upanisads do not support the main tenets of Advaita such as the concept of Nirvisesa Brahman, the identity of jivatman and Brahman, the phenomenal character of the jagat and the doctrine of maya. The author maintains with sufficient textual support that the nature of the philosophy advocated by the Upanisads is Theistic Monism (savisesadvaita). This book, which is the first of its kind, presents an authentic and comprehensive exposition of the philosophy of the Upanisads.
Author: Arthur Berriedale Keith
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paul Deussen
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 452
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Balbir Singh
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rohit Mehta
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9788120807495
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The seers and sages of Ancient India revealed fundamental principles of perennial philosophy. The Upanishads contain the essential principles of this perennial-this ageless philosophy. They contain a large number of inspiring and instructive passages and verses. It has not been possible to include all of them in this book. For the purposes of this book the author has taken those verses and passages that have a bearing on the mystical teaching of the Upanishads. It is mysticism which is the very core of the Upanishads-and so in understanding its mysticism one comes to the heart of the sublime and magnificent teaching of the Upanishads. In this age, where science and technology may lead us into a world devoid of meaning and significance. Modern man needs today a meaningful philosophy if the achievements of science are not to lead him to greater and greater destruction-but to sublime and majestic heights of creative living. It is in the Vision of Life given by the Upanishads that man can find the fundamental philosophy of Creative Living-a philosophy that can serve as a Beacon Light even in the midst of surrounding darkness, a philosophy that can lead him from the unreal to the Real, from darkness to Light, from death to Immortality.
Author: Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9780791436837
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Breaks through the cultural barriers between Western, Indian, and Chinese philosophy and demonstrates that despite considerable differences between these three great philosophical traditions, there are fundamental resemblances in their abstract principles.