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Monism Or Advaitism?

Name: Monism Or Advaitism?
Author: Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi

Manilal Nabhubhai Dvivedi

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Beschreibung

Religion and Science are but two parts of a correlated whole, and nothing more unfortunate in the history of civilization can be imagined than the attitude assumed by either at the present day. Having found that the Advaita was a philosophy reconciling the two, I tried to work up the idea, and placed it before the public, in a crude form, in my Raja-Yoga published in 1885. The public having taken kindly to the scheme outlined in that pamphlet; a second edition was rendered necessary. It has, however, been thought proper to replace that book by this, to explain, though neither quite definitely nor completely, yet more clearly, the method of analyzing this religion scientific philosophy. If I have laid the Advaita by the side of European Monism, it is not with any intention to criticize the latter, but only with a view to find the most convenient way of expressing the principles of the former. As in mathematics so in philosophy, it is always very convenient to express the unknown in terms of the comparatively known; without, at the same time, necessarily implying that the one is exactly equal to the other. I am aware of the danger of comparisons, and especially in a subject where even the very phraseology presents insuperable difficulties on either side; but with the explanation just given, I trust the reader will take the comparison for what it is worth, going with me, carefully, in my enunciation of the elements of Advaita philosophy.

I am led to place these pages before the public for yet another reason. The educated classes are, in their enthusiasm for everything modern, slowly losing, I may be permitted to say without meaning any offence, all sense of respect for antiquity and religion; and I thought it proper to prepare the following pages in the hope that they might help them in arriving at some conclusion on a subject of such vital importance. A. work in the Vernacular, dealing with the same subject on a more comprehensive plan, is just going through the press, and it appeared necessary to subject the main conclusions thereof to wider and more enlightened criticism, through the medium of a language which is now the lingua franca of nearly the whole of the world. I do not at all pretend to have done any, the smallest, justice to the subject, but I shall be amply satisfied if I succeed in interesting those who are able to think and decide for themselves.

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