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Rebirth Philosophical Study
of Reality It only presents a partial and fragmentary picture of It is, therefore, through intuition and the experiences of the seers trans-empirical truths have been grasped and realised And the Karma and rebirth 18 as ancient as civilization itself We my ac as the fruit of ancient pyschological experience
The doctrine of Karma and the consequent principle of Rel expressions of the highest knowledge and experience of the seers justification is neither possible nor necessary The ascetic Kaladevala tion of young Siddhartha Gautama that he would be the Buddha ne taken as a mere story It has a great significance In presenting the e of the seer The story is told of Pythagoras demonstrating wit who was beating a dog, because in the howling of the animal he re the voice of a departed friend Broad says that speculative ph should take into consideration the religious and mystical expe mankind It is they who are in constant touch with the innermo of life and to them we are to look for guidance Such enlightene or 'sages' are the firsthand exponents of philosophy
72 Contemporary British Philosophy (Ed. by Murhead H, 1924) Gr Speculative Philosophy
79 McTaggart Some Dogmas of Religion, p 129
