| Essence Of Hinduism |
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HINDU THEISM |
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study of Vedanta is not mere acquisition of intellectual knowledge, but self-realization,
this kind of graded sadhana is insisted on. In fact, the aim of all the sadhanas mentioned
in this chapter, whether Theistic, Yogic, Tantric or Vedantic, is the same? It is to
train the whole being of man physical, intellectual, moral and emotional for that
synthetic realization of God which is the essence of all 'religion. Before we leave the subject of Hindu Theism and its ways and means, it may be pointed out that of all the Hindu Theistic scriptures the most remarkable and the most popular one is the famous Bhagavad Gita from which some verses have already been quoted in the foregoing pages. Firstly, the Bhakti that it teaches is a healthy, well-balanced, spiritual feeling- balanced on the one side by an original ethical teaching called the Karma Yoga, according to which every man should discharge his duties faithfully and efficiently as an offering to God and on the other hand by a transcendent philosophical teaching called Karma Yoga, according to which one should finally perceive the mystic unity of all things in God. It has none of the extravagances and aberrations of some of our later
Bhakti Schools, which are characterized more by sentiment than by wisdom. Secondly, the
Bhakti that is taught in the Gita is both |
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