By Loly Rosset, Hans Torwestern
ISBN-10: 0802132626
ISBN-13: 9780802132628
At the guts of Vedanta lie the texts of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. starting with the idea that guy is a divine being whose maximum resource of power is his instinct, Vedanta seeks no longer in simple terms the buildup of data, yet particularly the annihilation of all wisdom. Its objective is an unclouded internal global that would let us exist untroubled by way of the complexity of the surface world.
For these drawn to the concise and clever assessment, in addition to those that search a greater realizing of what's on the middle of Hinduism, Vedanta is a distinct and thought-provoking guide.
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Chandogya Upanishad, V I I I . i . 1 - 3 ) W e are no longer dealing with revelation concerning this or that deity, but with the fundamental revelation that all this is to be found within our own human heart. The Brahman is not only " h i d d e n " in the external world of appearances but also in the Vedic t e x t s — t o the extent that they are still provisional and content with partial truths. All Indian mystics agree that at the moment of highest realization the Vedas can be laid aside as useless.
T h e guru seems to trust in the disciple's ability to arrive gradually at the truth on his o w n — e v e n perhaps ultimately at the highest truth, expressible only by silence. At times the guru seems knowingly to let the disciple get away with just provisional or even " f a l s e " truths. 1 34 VEDANTA • HEART OF HINDUISM rochana initially in the belief that the body is identical with the highest Self ( A t m a n ) . While Virochana is satisfied with this materialistic view, Indra soon begins to have doubts and returns to Prajapati for further step-by-step instruction concerning the true Self, the Everlasting, the Brahman.
It is both purusha and prakriti, at once immutable consciousness and constantly evolving Nature, both the highest transcendental and the underlying ground. As a result of later developments in religion and philosophy, both in India and in the West, we have become so accustomed to tearing everything apart that it is hard for us now to appreciate this most ancient intuitive insight of the oneness of all that there is. It is considered primitive, that is, still undifferentiated, as though these forest dwellers had simply not known how to use the tools of discrimi- 46 VEDANTA • HEART OF HINDUISM nation properly.
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