| Hinduism Doctrine And Way Of Life |
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| Books By Rajaji |
THE FIRST STEP |
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this fearlessness is in the soul, and is ex pressed thus in the Isavasya: Who sees all beings in his own body and his own soul in all beings-he hates no one. When the knower realizes that all beings are one with himself-what sorrow or what illusion can there be? -Isa-6,7 Life itself and all that it inherits are transient and unreal and only the good and bad in thought and action stick to the soul in its journey through births and deaths. In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad we are told that Janaka realized this and at once became free from all fear. Vedanta is the inspiration and the lesson practically of all the literature of India in a dozen of its languages. It is not a creed of North or South, but of all India and of all castes and all sects. Names made the sects although there was little or no distinction in faith or philosophy. The source book for all of them is the Upanishads. Vedanta has entered into the current of all-Indian literature, prose, poetry or drama, lyric or narrative, and imparts to it in varying degrees a loftiness of outlook and a faith in eternal verities. |
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