Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 15Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1883 - Asia Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society. |
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Page 270 - In the whole world there is no study, except that of the originals, so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.
Page 270 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Page lxxiv - Also contains the Indian Balhara, and the Arabian Intercourse with India in the Ninth and following Centuries.
Page 252 - This is all the sovereign's business, and hoic is it that I alone am supposed to have ability, and am made to toil in it ? ' Therefore those who explain the odes, may not insist on one term so as to do violence to a sentence, nor on a sentence so as to do violence to the general scope. They must try with their thoughts to meet that scope, and then we shall apprehend it. If we simply take single sentences, there is that in the ode called
Page 401 - Are they pure in heart, or are they not ? " " They are not, Gautama." " Have they self-mastery, or have they not ? " " They have not, Gautama." These replies provoke, of course, the very obvious retort that no point of union can be found between such dissimilar entities. Brahma is free from malice, sinless, self-contained, so, of course, it is only the sinless that can hope to be in harmony with him.
Page 407 - Would it be possible," he adds triumphantly, " in a more complete and categorical manner to deny that there is any soul, or anything of any kind which continues to exist in any manner after death...
Page 401 - And he lets his mind pervade one quarter of the world with thoughts of love, and so the second, and so the third, and so the fourth. And thus the whole wide world, above, below, around and everywhere, does he continue to pervade with heart of Love, far-reaching, grown great, and beyond measure.
Page 251 - On the point of Shun's not treating Yao as a minister, I have received your instructions. But it is said in the Book of Poetry, Under the whole heaven, Every spot is the sovereign's ground; To the borders of the land, Every individual is the sovereign's minister;" - and Shun had become sovereign. I venture to ask how it was that Ku-sau was not one of his ministers.
Page 413 - Much longing after the things (of this life) is a disobedience, I again declare ; not less so is the laborious ambition of dominion by a prince who would be a propitiator of heaven. Confess and believe in God (Is'ana), who is the worthy object of obedience.
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