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according action activity ancient aphorism appears Aranyaka argument atoms attributes Badarayuna body bondage Book Brahma Sutras Brahmana called cause Charvaka cognition conjunction cosmogony creation Creator Deity desire and aversion Destiny divine doctrine elements emancipation embodied entity eternal ether evolution evolved existence Gautama gross Hindu Philosophy human idea Ignorance India Indian Logic Indra inference intelligence internal organ intimate ishads Jaimini Kanada Kapila Lesson liberation manifest material means meditation ments Mimansa mind monism nature non-existence notion Nyaya object organs of sense pain pantheism Patanjali perception portion Prakriti present principle proof proved qualities quiescence represented revelation Rig Veda right knowledge sacrifice Sankar Sankhya Sankhya Philosophy Sankhya school Sastra says smriti soul sound substance subtle subtle body Supreme Spirit Taittiriya Upanishad teleological argument theory things thought tion translated treatise truth universe Upanishads varied Vedantic Vedantic school Vedas verse volition words Yoga
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Page 373 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 383 - What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise : for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, " There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Page 46 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 88 - Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Page 88 - In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Page 177 - In the full position one places the right foot on the left thigh and the left foot on the right thigh. In the half position only the left foot is placed upon the right thigh.
Page 411 - Thus having said, the mighty Lord of all Displayed to Arjuna his form supreme, Endowed with countless mouths and countless eyes, With countless faces turned to every quarter, With countless marvellous appearances, With ornaments and wreaths and robes divine, With heavenly fragrance and celestial weapons. It was as if the firmament were filled, "• All in an instant, with a thousand suns, Blazing with dazzling lustre, so beheld he The glories of the universe collected In the one person of the God...
Page 271 - Presumption (arl'kdpatli} is deduction of a matter from that which could not else be. It is assumption of a thing not itself perceived, but necessarily implied by another which is seen, heard, or proven. *• "Knowledge of a thing which is not proximate (or subject to perception) derived through understood sound, that is through words the acceptation whereof is known, is (sdslrn) ordinance or revelation. It is (sabda] verbal communication.
Page 409 - I am its way and refuge, Its habitation and receptacle, I am its witness. I am Victory And Energy ; I watch the universe With eyes and face in all directions turned. I dwell, as Wisdom, in the heart of all. I am the Goodness of the good, I am Beginning, Middle, End, eternal Time, The Birth, the Death of all. I am the symbol A Among the characters. I have created all Out of one portion of myself.
Page 25 - She verily reflected: how can he approach me, whom he has produced from himself? Alas I will conceal myself. Thus she became a cow, the other a bull. He approached her. Hence kine were born. The one became a mare, and the other a stallion, the one a female ass, the other a male ass. He approached her. Hence the onehoofed kind was born. The one became a female goat, the other a male goat, the one became an ewe, the other a ram.