Philosophies of India

SR No.: 007309
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell
Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd
Publication Year: 1953
Total Pages: 709
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 34 MB

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BRAHMANISM
steadfast, the yogi of subducd inind attains the peace residing in Me-the peace that culminates in Nirvāņa." 124
And as for the state on earth of the one who has attained:
"He who is the same to friend and foe, alike in facing honor and dishonor, alike in heat and cold, in pleasure and pain, who is free from all attachment (to the sphere of conflicting experiences and pairs-of-opposites], to whom censure and praise are equal, and who remains silent and content with anything (good or evil, just as it comes], he who is homeless, steady-minded, and full of devout self-surrender-that man is dear to Me." 125
"He who sits as one unconcerned, and is not agitated by the guņas; he who simply knows 'these guņas are acting of themselves, they are whirling around,' and remains unmoved, not swerving-is said to have gone beyond the guņas." 128
“Just as a lamp sheltered from the wind does not flicker....' Such is the simile employed to describe the yogi who has subdued his mind, yoking himself in the yoga exercise of concentration on the Self.” 127 "He who resigns his activities to the Universal Self (brahman) by forsaking attachment to them and their results, remains unstained by evil-just as the lotus leaf remains unstained by water.” 128_This also is a classic simile. Just as the leaves of the lotus, which because of their smooth oily surface are not affected by the water in which they grow
some formula or vision-and then kept fixed upon it until this object becomes more or less permanent and remains of itself.
124 Bhagavad Gita 6. 11-15. "The mind directed in accordance with the roaming and rambling of the senses in pursuit of their objects carries away man's discriminative awareness and insight (prajña), as a wind carries away a boat drifting on the waters" (ib. 2. 67.).
126 16. 12. 18-19. 126 Ib. 14. 23-25. 127 1b. 6. 19. 128 1b. 5. 10,
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