Primitive Indian Philosophy1893 - 21 páginas |
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abstruse abyss Aditi Agni Agnostic Aitareya Brahmana ancient Rishi Aranyaka Aryan Brāhmaṇa breathed breathless clue compositions concept creatures deeper thinkers Deva doubt earliest embryo earliest speculations earth enquiries epoch established in thee evolution of material existence faculty father and mother force foreshadowings gods Golden Germ Greece heaven Heraclitus Honour human thought husk Burst immortal Indian thought Indo-Aryan races Indra Infinite Kant language legend limited Max Müller metre modern motion Nasadiya nature worship observation ocean without light offer sacrifice order of mental Panini perceived personification phenomena physical Prajapati PRIMITIVE INDIAN PHILOSOPHY principle of heat pronoun quote three verses religion Rig-Veda sacrificial worship Sanskrit sensible sprung Śukra Supreme Svetaketu replied Theogony theological or religious things Thou art tion universe Upanishad Varuna Veda Vedic Hymn Vedic period Vedic philosophy Vedic poet Vedic Rishis Vedic truth veiled In gloom Wessobrunn Prayer whole word
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Página 17 - What covered all? what sheltered? what concealed? Was it the water's fathomless abyss? There was not death — yet was there nought immortal. There was no confine betwixt day and night; The only One breathed breathless by itself, Other than It there nothing since has been. Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled In gloom profound — an ocean without light...
Página 17 - What covered all ? what sheltered ? what concealed ? Was it the water's fathomless abyss ? There was not death — yet was there nought immortal, There was no confine betwixt day and night; The only One breathed breathless by itself, Other than It there nothing since has been. Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled In gloom profound — an ocean without light — The germ that still lay corered in the husk Burst forth, one nature, from the fervent heat.
Página 18 - Who knows the secret ? Who proclaimed it here ? Whence, whence this manifold creation sprang ? The gods themselves. came later into being — Who knows from whence this great creation sprang ? He from whom all this great creation came, Whether his will created or was mute ? The Most High- Seer that is in highest heaven, He knows it — or perchance even He knows not.
Página 20 - There dwells in us all," says Schelling, ' ' a secret, wonderful faculty, by virtue of which we can withdraw from the mutations of time into our innermost disrobed selves, and there behold the eternal under the form of immutability ; such vision is our innermost and peculiar experience, on which alone depends all that we know and believe of a supra-sensible world.
Página 5 - And this is why you hear me, a Western man taught in a Western University and nursed on the traditions of modern civilization, say that Zaratushta knew more about nature than Tyndall does, more about the laws of Force than Balfour Stewart, more about the origin of species than Darwin or Haeckel, more about the human mind and its potentialities than Maudesley or Bain. And so did Buddha, and some other ancient proficients in Occult Science.
Página 17 - Other than it there nothing since has been. Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled In gloom profound, — an ocean without light. — The germ that still lay covered in the husk Burst forth, one nature, from the fervent heat. Then first came Love upon it, the new spring Of mind — yea, poets in their hearts discerned, Pondering, this bond between created things And uncreated. Comes this spark from earth, Piercing and all-pervading, or from heaven ? Then seeds were sown, and mighty power...
Página 17 - One breathed breathless by itself, Other than It there nothing since has been. Darkness there was, and all at first was veiled In gloom profound — an ocean without light—- The germ that still lay covered in the husk Burst forth, one nature, from the fervent heat. Then first came love upon it, the new spring Of mind — yea, poets in their hearts discerned, Pondering, this bond between created things And uncreated.
Página 9 - One (receptacle) rested upon the navel of the Unborn, wherein all the worlds stood. ' 7. Ye know not him who produced these things ; something else is •within you. The chanters of hymns go about enveloped in mist and unsatisfied with idle talk.
Página 19 - Mummu-Tiamat) she who produced the whole. Their waters flowed together in one, no flock of animals was as yet collected, no plant had sprung up. When none of the gods had as yet been produced...
Página 12 - Jifdras ahare in the sacrifice.) Indra after having slain Vritra and remained victor in various battles, said to Prajapati, " I will have thy rank, that of the supreme deity ; I will be great...