By Rene Guenon
René Guénon's first e-book, advent to the learn of Hindu Doctrines, got here (in the phrases of the eminent pupil S. H. Nasr) 'like a surprising burst of lightning, an abrupt intrusion into the fashionable global of a physique of data and a standpoint totally alien to the ordinary weather and international view.' during this publication Guénon establishes the standards which shaped the root of his later works and set the tone for the Traditionalist institution that got here after him: the which means of culture, the connection among 'religion', 'theology', 'metaphysics etc.-all best as much as an exhaustive definition and finished evaluation of Hinduism, which Guénon observed because the such a lot historic and so much whole non secular culture on the earth, embracing the main profound and particular metaphysics. The West is now overrun with many manufacturers of compromised Hinduism, whose 'gurus' are thought of charlatans by way of conventional Hindu gurus. For someone attracted to the Hindu culture, looking for how to separate the wheat from the chaff and devoted to gaining an realizing of the universe that's Hinduism in its personal phrases and never these imposed through modernist Western assumptions, this e-book is fundamental.
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They are India’s most precious legacy to humanity, and in that spirit they are offered here. 47 ╯ ╭ t h e u pa n i s h a d s ╯ Translated by Eknath Easwaran Chapter Introductions & Afterword by Michael N. Nagler ╭ Isha Upanishad The Self is everywhere. Bright is the Self, Indivisible, untouched by sin, wise, Immanent and transcendent. He it is Who holds the cosmos together. ” With these words Mahatma Gandhi paid tribute to the remarkable Upanishad that traditionally stands at the beginning of most Indian collections.
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. 5) In the end, all achievement is powered by desire. Each of us has millions of desires, from big to trivial, packed with a certain measure of will to get that desire fulfilled. Imagine how much power is latent in the human personality! With just a fraction of that potential, young Alexander conquered continents, Rutan and Yaeger flew Voyager around the world, Ein- 33 ╯ ╭ introduction stein penetrated the heart of the universe.
Bright is the Self, Indivisible, untouched by sin, wise, Immanent and transcendent. He it is Who holds the cosmos together. 9–11 In dark night live those for whom The world without alone is real; in night Darker still, for whom the world within Alone is real. The first leads to a life Of action, the second to a life of meditation. But those who combine action with meditation Cross the sea of death through action And enter into immortality Through the practice of meditation. So have we heard from the wise.
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