An Integrated Science of the Absolute
author: Nataraja Guru
edition: 2001, D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 1246
ISBN-10: 8124610576
ISBN-13: 9788124610572
Topic: Hindu-philosophy
Some Structural Impossibilities
This chapter describes Some Structural Impossibilities in the book An Integrated Science of the Absolute. This book deals with the study and translation of the Darsana Mala (Garland of Visions) by Narayana Guru (19th century) which represents an exposition of Upanisadic thought and Mysticism. Nataraja Guru was his direct disciple but also studied Educational Psychology. In this book, he attempts to integrate science with philosophy (Darshana). Narayana Guru was a philosopher, and visionary poet from Kerala who sought to propound the wisdom of Advaita philosophy. This chapter is part of the collection Volume 2. Preliminaries.
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Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) [by Somadeva]
Note on the “impossibilities” motif (a). Note: this text is extracted from Book VII, chapter 40. This incident is found in the story of Yavakrita in the 135th chapter of the Mahabharata. ——The motif of proving the impossibility of one thing by showing the impossibility of another thing is not uncommon in folk-lore. Perhaps the most famous example is that of the iron-eating mice in Jataka No. 218....
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Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya) [by George Thibaut]
Moreover if we assumed that the man frees himself from his good and evil deeds on the way--after having departed from the body and having entered on the path of the gods--we should implicate ourselves in impossibilities; for after the body has been left behind, man can no longer accomplish, according to his liking, that effort which consists in self-restraint and pursuit of knowledge, and which is the cause of the obliteration of all his good and evil deeds, and consequently that obliteration also...
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Jnaneshwari (Bhavartha Dipika) [by Ramchandra Keshav Bhagwat]
That (knowledge), one who has attained perfection in Yoga, finds, in course of time, spontaneously within his (own) Self. (177) Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar: These are utter impossibilities, and do not even bear the light of reflective thought. Nothing is so holy and sacred as knowledge. Knowledge is the supreme good. What else can be on a par with it? No equal can exist by the side of spirit (sentience)....
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[An Integrated Science of the Absolute: index]
[About the Author (Narayana Guru and Nataraja Guru)]
[Introduction]
[The Three Steps in a Complete Philosophy]