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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
CHAPTER II THE UPANIŞADS
The Upanisads form the concluding portions of the Veda, and are therefore called the Vada-anta or the end of the Veda. They contain more of philosophy and no ritualistic portion of the Vedas. The Upanisads are the free utterances of the inspired sages given out by them in their mystical experiences. The Upanisads are the collection of varied statements of different thinkers and therefore they are heterogeneous in character. The Upanisadic statements being inconsistent with each other and sometimes even contradictory of each other, it is impossible to construct a scientific and logically tenable philosophical system from them. They are stray inspired utterances of the seers in the form of the outpourings of the poetic imaginations of philosophically tempered minds in the face of the facts of life. They express the restlessness and striving of the human mind to grasp the true nature of Reality. The later Vedāntic systems of Samkara, Rāmánuja, Nimbārka, Madhva, Vallabha differ from each other but they tried to remain faithful to and tried to find support from the Upanişads. Due to the conflicting and incompatible views expressed in the Upanisads it is impossible to hold dogmatically that the Upanişads have any particular system of philosophy
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | G N Joshi |
| Publisher | Gujarat University |
| Publication Year | 1965 |
| Total Pages | 901 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 12 MB |