The Philosophy and Religion of Sri Chaitanya
author: O.B.L Kapoor
edition: 2008, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 258
ISBN-10: 8121502756
ISBN-13: 9788121502757
Topic: Vaishnavism
Sabda (Revelation)
This chapter describes Sabda (Revelation) of the fifth chapter in the book The Philosophy and Religion of Sri Chaitanya written by O.B.L Kapoor. This work is a comprehensive, critical and comparative study of all aspects of the philosophy and religion of Shri-Caitanya (Sri Chaitanya). Importance is given to the concept of Bhakti—the highest means of attaining God, Prema—divine love and Rasa—The doctrine of transcendental relish. The first three chapters deal with the history of the Vaishnava religion dating from the earliest Vedic period and Vaishnavism in ancient Bengal. The rest of the chapters discuss the philosophy and religion the Chaitanya movement.
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Samkhya thoughts in the Mahabharata [by Shini M.V.]
Inference has been proclaimed to be of three kinds and it is based upon the intuition of the middle term and then major term and valid assertion is right revelation. The Samkhya Philosophy recognizes the validity of Shruti though with reservation and there by gives validity to shabda as one of the means of knowledge. Causation means the appearance or manifestation of a quality due to certain changes of collocations in the causes which were already held in them in a potential form....
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Brahma Sutras (Ramanuja) [by George Thibaut]
Sabda proves difference. Shabda proves difference. As to sound (speech; shabda) it is specially apparent that it possesses the power of denoting only such things as are affected with difference. Speech operates with words and sentences. Now a word (pada) originates from the combination of a radical element and a suffix, and as these two elements have different meanings it necessarily follows that the word itself can convey only a sense affected with difference....
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A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 [by Surendranath Dasgupta]
Upamana and Sabda. The third pramana, which is admitted by Nyaya and not by Vaisheshika, is upamana , and consists in associating a thing unknown before with its name by virtue of its similarity with some other known thing. Thus a man of the city who has never seen a wild ox (gavaya) goes to the forest, asks a forester— “what is gavaya ?”...
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[The Philosophy and Religion of Sri Chaitanya: index]
[About The Author (O.b.l. Kapoor)]
[Preface]