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Some Features of the Philosophical Thoughts of <i>Kabir</i> the Poet

It has been the topic of debate among scholars and thinkers whether modern thoughts as can be noticed in the West did exist in India before Western thoughts were introduced into India.When scholars and thinkers take up Indian philosophy, they discuss the thoughts in philosophical texts which are relevant to darsanas; such as the Nyaya-Vaiseshika or Vedanta schools. They tend to disregard philosophical thoughts as were expressed and represented by poets or religious leaders in the modern period.However, in my eyes modern thoughts which are occasionally more radical than those expressed by modern thinkers of the West are noticed in the poems of some Indian thinkers of the same period.One of the most noteworthy thinkers was Kabir the poet (1440-1518 A. D.). His thoughts are not set forth, nor discussed by authors of ordinary“History of Indian philosophy”and so on. They discuss chiefly darsanas.However, as the remarkable thinker of India at the dawn of modern age, I am going to discuss the philosophical thought of Kabir.I. To our astonishment, he was an explicit egalitarian. He denied all the distinctions and discriminations among various classes or castes.II. He was thoroughgoing in the respect of iconoclasm. He denied the significance of all idols.III. The significance of religion can be noticed in the internal character. The significance of all the holy scriptures was denied.IV. God resides only within one's mind. The difference among various religions was denied. Practice of all traditional rituals is useless.V. Erudition about religious scriptures is useless. He encouraged pratical and realistic scholarship.VI. We should rely upon experiences alone. He expressed pragmatic views.VII. To be a human being should be placed in viewing things. Human body should be taken care of.VIII. The spirit of love should be extended beyond human beings. This worldly, secular attitude concerning daily life should be emphasized. Family life is most important.IX. The yawning for God can be compared to sexual love. Otherworldly religious practice was denied.

Karma as a "Convenient Fiction" in the Advaita Vedanta

1 Brhaddranyaka Upanisad, IV.iv.5, in R. E. Hume, trans., Thirteen Principal Upanishads (London: Oxford University Press, 1931). 2 Svestadfvatara Upaniyad, V.11, in ibid. 3 Surendranath Dasgupta, A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957), p. 71. To the possible objection that denies freedom man, and is thus self-negating, M. Hiriyanna states that to act with arbitrarily shifting motives would be act from impulses, as many lower animals do. Hence freedom should be regarded as consisting not in unrestricted license, but in being determined by oneself. When therefore we ask whether belief in does not result in fatalism, all that we mean is whether it does or does not preclude self-determination. That it does not is evident, because the doctrine traces the causes which determine an action the very individual that acts. The Essentials of Indian Philosophy (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1949), p. 47. Hiriyanna then goes on note the manner in which transmigration is involved in the doctrine. He writes: Since, however, those causes cannot all be found within the narrow limits of a single life, it [the doctrine] postulates the theory of sahmsdra or the continued existence of the self in a succession of lives. Thus the theory of transmigration is a necessary corollary the doctrine of Karma (ibid.). From now on, when we use the term karma we mean refer the joint doctrine of the law of karma-the principle of causality which holds that all moral actions produce moral effects-and of sathsira-the principle that there is a transmigration of the self in a series of births, deaths, and rebirths.

Surendranath Dasgupta: A history of Indian philosophy. Vol. v. Southern schools of śaivism. xiv, 204 pp. Cambridge: University Press, 1955. 25s.

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A History of Indian Philosophy.

Book Reviews Get access A History of Indian Philosophy. By S. Dasgupta. Volume V. The Southern schools of Saivism. (Cambridge : C.U.P. 1955. Pp. xiv + 204. Price 25s). A. C. Bouquet A. C. Bouquet Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 8, Issue 30, January 1958, Pages 79–80, https://doi.org/10.2307/2216860 Published: 01 January 1958

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ALL those who are interested in Indian philosophy, and especially the readers of the first two volumes of this excellent standard and scholarly work, will welcome the publication of the third volume as well as the news that the manuscript of the fourth volume is ready. Prof. Dasgupta's remarkable exposition of Indian thought brings home to philosophers that the history of their subject is incompletely assessed and understood without a general knowledge at least of Eastern thought. The difficulty of perusing manuscripts in Sanskrit and other old tongues of the Dekkan Peninsula is minimized by the painstaking and judicious study carried out by Prof. Dasgupta, and the results of which are given in his great work. A History of Indian Philosophy By Dr. Surendranath Dasgupta. Vol. 3. Pp. xiii + 614. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1940.) 35s. net.

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History Of Indian Philosophy. By S.K. Belvalkar and R.D. Ranade. Volume VII. Indian Mysticism : Mysticism in Maharashtra. By R.D. Ranade. pp. xlvi + 494. Poona, 1934. Rs. 15.

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History of Indian Philosophy in Eight Volumes, Vol. 7: Indian Mysticism. By S. K. BelvalkarM.A., Ph.D.,and R. D. RanadeM.A. (Part 1:) Mysticism in Maharashtra. By R. D. Ranade. (Poona: Aryabhushan Press. 1933. Pp- 46 + 496 + 10. Price Rs. 10. Library edition, RS. 15.)

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(1) A History of Indian Philosophy (2) Outlines of Indian Philosophy

A COMPARATIVE study of Eastern and Western thought cannot but widen the understanding of philosophy as a collective effort to apprehend the ultimate sources of knowledge and life. It would also suggest to thinkers of either tradition, new methods of approaching these fundamental problems. A great deal of pioneer work still has to be done in both directions, in order to facilitate the accessibility and interpretation of the existing texts. The West has already published a large amount of original writings, critical editions and historical studies of its leaders of thought; but the East has the technical disadvantage of having entered rather late in the field of practical scholarship. Prof.Dasgupta tells us, for example, how the publication of the second volume of his great “History of Indian Philosophy” was delayed, among other reasons, by the fact that he had to read numerous unpublished and unknown texts, and to decipher patiently the handwriting of old and moth-eaten manuscripts. (1) A History of Indian Philosophy. By Dr. Surendranath Dasgupta. Vol 1. Second impression. Pp. xvi + 528. 30s. net. Vol. 2. Pp. xi + 620. 35s. net. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1932.) (2) Outlines of Indian Philosophy. By M. Hiriyanna. Pp. 419. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1932.) 16s. net.

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DASGUPTAS “HISTORY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY” Get access J. S. MACKENZIE J. S. MACKENZIE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XXXII, Issue 128, October 1923, Page 512, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XXXII.128.512 Published: 01 October 1923