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Philosophy 
Item Code: IDJ489by F. Max. MullerHardcover (Edition: 2002)New Bharatiya Book Corporation, Delhi ISBN 8187418591 Size: 8.5X" 5.6" Pages: 109 |
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| Chapter 1. | Origin of the Vedanta Philosophy | ||
| The Importance of the Philosophy | 1 | ||
| What is important and what is merely curious | 2 | ||
| The Importance of the Vedanta Philosophy | 4 | ||
| Opinions of the Vedanta by Schopenhauer, Sir W. Jones, Victor Cousin, F. Schlegel | 5 | ||
| The Vedanta, both Philosophy and Religion | 7 | ||
| The Upanisads as Vedanta | 9 | ||
| The Four Stages of Life | 11 | ||
| Relation of the Soul (Atman) to Brahmana (the Paramatman) | 12 | ||
| Unsystematic Character of the Upanisads | 13 | ||
| Growth of Religious and Philosophic Thought before the Upanisads | 14 | ||
| Belief in the God | 16 | ||
| Two Forms of the Vedanta | 17 | ||
| The Upanisads treated as Revealed, not as Historical Books | 18 | ||
| Moral Preparation for the Study of the Vedanta | 21 | ||
| Mistrust in the Evidence of the Senses | 24 | ||
| Metaphorical Language of the Upanisads | 24 | ||
| Chapter 2. | The Soul and God | ||
| Extracts from the Upanisads | 28 | ||
| I. From Katha Upanisad | 28 | ||
| II. From the Maitrayana Upanisad | 33 | ||
| Sankara's Analysis of Subject and object | 36 | ||
| The Inheritance of the Vedanta | 42 | ||
| No Esoteric Vedanta | 42 | ||
| Relation between the Higher Brahmana and the Lower Brahmana | 49 | ||
| Relation between the Higher Atman and the Living Atman | 51 | ||
| Different Views of the Soul in Indian Philosophy | 52 | ||
| The Upadhis as the cause of difference between the Soul and God | 54 | ||
| The Psychology of the Vedanta | 55 | ||
| Our Mind is not our Self (Atman) | 57 | ||
| The Upadhis due to Avidya | 57 | ||
| Nescience (Avidya) destroyed by Knowledge (Vidya) | 59 | ||
| How the Soul can be one with God | 60 | ||
| Chapter 3. | Similarities and Differences between Indian and European Philosophy | ||
| Strangeness of Eastern Philosophy | 64 | ||
| General Interest of Indian Philosophy | 65 | ||
| Critical Treatment of Oriental Literature | 66 | ||
| The Sacred Syllable Om | 68 | ||
| Whatever was Old became Sacred | 69 | ||
| Books for the Study of the Vedanta | 70 | ||
| Coincidences. Spinoza's Substantia' | 72 | ||
| The Meaning of Real | 74 | ||
| The Nature of Avidya and Maya | 75 | ||
| Colebrooke n Maya | 75 | ||
| Sir W. Jones on the Vedanta | 77 | ||
| The Two Brahmans are One | 78 | ||
| The Germs of the Vedanta in the Upanisads | 79 | ||
| The Knowledge of the Brahmana | 81 | ||
| Names and Forms the Objects of Brahmana's knowledge | 82 | ||
| Thought and Language Inseparable | 82 | ||
| Coincideness between Names and Forms and the Greek Logas | 83 | ||
| Speech as a Creative Power to the Veda | 84 | ||
| Similarity with the Old Testament Wisdom | 85 | ||
| Did Brahmana means Word? | 86 | ||
| Brahmana derived from the same Root as Verbum and Word | 87 | ||
| Names and Forms the Connecting-link between Brahmana and the World | 88 | ||
| The Gods of other Religions | 90 | ||
| Names and Forms the Product of Avidya | 92 | ||
| The Vedanta in Political Life | 94 | ||
| The Ethics of the Vedanta | 95 | ||
| The Doctrine of Karman | 96 | ||
| Pre-existence of the Soul | 97 | ||
| Recapitulation | 100 |
