The mystics, ascetics, and saints of India : a study of Sadhuism, with an account of the Yogis, Sanyasis, Bairagis, and other strange Hindu sectarians (1905)
Oman, John Campbell, 1841-1911 · London : T. F. Unwin · leaf 142
ncomprehensible tragedies of lifearound them, the bewildered Hindu tMnkers, being humanand intellectual, were driven perforce to conceive someplausible explanation of the mighty riddle of existence—of being, suffering, decay, and dissolution—which confrontedthem in its appalling and majestic… … [E MYSTICS, ASCETICS, AND SAINTS OF INDIA of otlier creeds.^ But it has to be noted that in their un-bounded confidence in their own dream-world the Hindusages pronounced the senses to be the misleading cause ofmans ignorance, and arrived at the conclusion that theworld, as revealed by the senses,…
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