An Outline of the Religious Literature of India, Volume 47;Volume 276

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H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920 - 451 páginas
 

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Página 44 - The observance of one's own duty leads one to Svarga and infinite bliss. When it is violated, the world will come to an end owing to confusion of castes and duties.
Página 230 - ... excitement, and often leads to hysterical laughing and weeping by turns, to sudden fainting fits and to long trances of unconsciousness.
Página 34 - Those whose conduct has been good, will quickly attain some good birth, the birth of a Brahmana, or a Kshatriya, or a Vaisya. But those whose conduct has been evil, will quickly attain an evil birth, the birth of a dog, or a hog, or a Kandala. 8. 'On neither of these two ways those small creatures (flies, worms, &c.) are continually returning of whom it may be said, Live and die.
Página 63 - Reply should be made that it is the individual ; the venerable So-and-so of such-and-such a family. He, O monks, is called the bearer of the burden. ' And what, O monks, is the taking up of the burden ? ' It is desire leading to rebirth, joining itself to pleasure and passion, and finding delight in every existence — desire, namely, for sensual pleasure, desire for permanent existence, desire for transitory existence. This, O monks, is called the taking up of the burden. ' And what, O monks, is...
Página 309 - Sankirtana parties lost all heart, and their great music, which had taken the country by surprise and flooded it with poetry, broke in the midst of their enthusiastic performances, and sounded no more on the banks of the Ganges. The companions of Chaitanya, mute and stricken with a sense of their great loss, one by one departed from the world; and the history of this period shows no striking feature of the Vaishnava movement and no activity of any noteworthy nature."100 But though literature failed...
Página iv - PREFACE THE writers of this series of volumes on the variant forms of religious life in India are governed in their work by two impelling motives. I. They endeavour to work in the sincere and sympathetic spirit of science. They desire to understand the perplexingly involved developments of thought and life in India and dispassionately to estimate their value. They recognize the futility of any such attempt to understand and evaluate, unless it is grounded in a thorough historical study of the phenomena...
Página 63 - As to the origin of misery, Buddha found it in the desire for sensual pleasure, for permanent and transitory existence. In other words, the will to life lies at the source of all misery. As to the truth about the cessation of misery, Buddha held that since we know the cause of misery, only...
Página 109 - The Buddha of the Mahavastu is a superman. He feels neither hunger nor thirst ; he lives in ignorance of carnal desires; his wife remains a virgin. It is from, consideration for humanity, in order to conform to the customs of the world...
Página 13 - Fear of devils there clearly is, and some of the hymns provide magic spells, but, on the whole, "the religion is a healthy, happy system. Neither asceticism nor austerity, neither pessimism nor philosophy, disturbs the sunshine of that early day.
Página 33 - It is a very remarkable fact that the belief of the early people with regard to birth, death, and the other world underwent such a complete change at this period in their history. There is no trace of transmigration in the hymns of the Vedas ; only in the Brahmanas are there to be found a few traces of the lines of thought from which the doctrine arose.

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