Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines
ISBN-13:
9780900588747
ISBN-10:
0900588748
Edition:
2nd
Author:
Rene Guenon
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
Sophia Perennis et Universalis
Format:
Hardcover
276 pages
Category:
Hinduism
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ISBN-13:
9780900588747
ISBN-10:
0900588748
Edition:
2nd
Author:
Rene Guenon
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
Sophia Perennis et Universalis
Format:
Hardcover
276 pages
Category:
Hinduism
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Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines (ISBN-13: 9780900588747 and ISBN-10: 0900588748), written by authors
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René Guénon's Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines can serve as an introduction to all his later works-especially those which, like Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta, The Symbolism of the Cross, The Multiple States of the Being, and Studies in Hinduism, expound the more profound aspects of metaphysical doctrines in greater detail. In Part I Guenon clears away certain ingrained prejudices inherited from the 'Renaissance', with its adulation of the Greco-Roman culture and its compensating depreciation-both deliberate and instinctive-of other civilizations. In Part II he establishes the fundamental distinctions between various modes of thought and brings out the real nature of metaphysical or universal knowledge-an understanding of which is the first condition for the personal realization of that 'Knowledge' which partakes of the Absolute. Words like 'religion', 'philosophy', 'symbolism', 'mysticism', and 'superstition', are here given a precise meaning. Part III presents a more detailed examination of the Hindu doctrine and its applications at different levels, leading up to the Vedanta, which constitutes its metaphysical essence. Lastly, Part IV resumes the task of clearing away current misconceptions, but is this time concerned not with the West itself, but with distortions of the Hindu doctrines that have arisen as a result of attempts to read into them, or to graft onto them, modern Western conceptions. The concluding chapter lays down the essential conditions for any genuine understanding between East and West, which can only come through the work of those who have attained, at least in some degree, to the realization of 'wisdom uncreate'-that intellective, suprarational knowledge called in the East jñana, and in the West gnosis.
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