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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 9
…senting intelligible and diverse ideas to our minds (and this is the point!) though identical in reality and convertible by a process of reason which simulates or replaces that apprehension which we can never attain to. Let us apply this idea to the Beginning of all things, about which the Christians lie frankly, the Hindus preva- ricate, and the Buddhists are discreetly silent, while not contradicting even the gross and ridiculous accounts of the more fantastic Hindu visionaries. 7 Ratiocination may perhaps not take us far. But perhaps a conti…
1903 · PDF PAGE 16
…ll we escape? Can we expect the entire universe to resolve itself back into the phase of 0°? Surely not. In the first place, there is no reason why the whole should do so; * is just as convertible as =. But worse, the category of causality hes been formed, and its inertia is sufficient to oppose a most serious stumbling-block to so gigantic a process. The task before us is consequently of a terrible nature. It is easy to let things slide, to grin and bear it in fact, until everything is merged in the ultimate
1903 · PDF PAGE 7
…inks in horror from the inevitable conclusion ; he supposes there must be something. wrong somewhere, and concludes that the sole use of reason is to discover its own inferiority to faith. As Deussen “ well points out, faith in the Christian sense merely amounts to being convinced on insufficient grounds. This is surely the last refuge of incompetence. But though, always on the original hypothesis of the infinity of space, etc., the Advaitist position of the Vedantists and the great Germans is unassailable, yet on practical grounds the Dvaitist…
1903 · PDF PAGE 17
… of freewill; but if this is so, norhing matters at all. If, however, Herbert Spencer is mistaken (unlikely as it must appear), then our reason is valid, and we should seek out the right path and pursue it. The question therefore need not trouble us at all. Here, then wesee the use of morals and of religion, and all the rest of the bag of tricks. All these are methods, bad or good, for extricating ourselves from the universe. Closely connected with this question is that of the will of God. People argue that an Infinite intelligence must have be…
1903 · PDF PAGE 4
…tan and Man). Then M is also the resultant of G, S, and — x. So that Wwe can regard either of our forces as the supreme, and there is no reason for worshipping one rather than another. All are finite. This argument the Christians clearly see: hence the development of God from the petty
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
…places it, though the Yogis claim to attain to Nirvikalpa- Samadhi, and that Moksha is identical with Nirvana; the former claim I see no reason to deny them the latter statement I must decline at present to accept. The task of the Buddhist recluse is roughly as follows; He must plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspirations, word, deed, life, will- power, meditation, rapture, such are the stages of his liberation, which resolves itself into a struggle against the law of causality. He cannot prevent past causes taking…