The Routledge Dictionary of Religious and Spiritual QuotationsHow did the universe come to exist? What is the nature of its creator? Is there a purpose to human existence? What is it to live a good life? |
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... Bhagavad Gita, Jewish Mishnah, Sikh Adi Granth and Chinese Tao Te Ching. Read the words of prophets, scholars and mystics on the nature of the divine, the ethics of human conduct and the puzzles of mortality, resurrection and life after ...
... Bhagavad Gita, Sikh Adi Granth, Buddhist Dhammapada and Nikayas, and Chinese Tao Te Ching and Confucian Analects. It will be seen that the material has not been arranged alphabetically, by author or subject, but under 177 topic headings ...
... Bhagavad Gita about 400–100, and the Ramayana epic somewhat later; the Sankhya-karika and Yajnavalkya lawbook about the fourth century CE, and the Pancha-tantra tales later. The enlightened Buddhist emperor Ashoka, with his pillar and ...
... Bhagavad Gita, 4, 1–3 7 It is now ninety-one aeons ago, brethren, since Vipassi, the Exalted One, Arahant, Buddha Supreme, arose in the world. It is now thirty-one aeons ago, brethren, since Sikhi, the Exalted One, Arahant, Buddha ...
... Bhagavad Gita, 18,61 9 If my analysis of the magician's logic is correct, its two great principles turn out to be merely two different misapplications of the association of ideas. Homoeopathic magic is founded on the association of ...
Contents
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II THE SUPERNATURAL | 37 |
III THE NATURE OF GOD | 51 |
IV THE UNIVERSE | 76 |
V HUMANITY | 89 |
VI THE SACRED | 97 |
VII SACRED PERSONS | 105 |
XI SPIRITUAL EXERCISES | 151 |
XII RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY | 164 |
XIII RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY | 189 |
XIV VIRTUE AND THE GOOD | 205 |
XV MORALITY | 225 |
XVI MEN AND WOMEN | 246 |
XVII SOCIETY | 263 |
XVIII LAST THINGS | 291 |
VIII SACRED WORDS | 120 |
IX SACRED ACTIONS | 128 |
X SPIRITUALITY | 136 |
TEXT AND AUTHOR INDEX | 318 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 330 |
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