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RAMAKRISHNA VEDANTA VERENIGING NEDERLAND De Vlaschaard 57, 1183KM, Amstelveen 020-441-0155 vedanta.nederland@gmail.com |
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WORLD THINKERS ON VEDANTA |
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"Vedanta is the most sublime of all philosophies, and the most comforting of all religions.
If philosophy is meant to be a
preparation for a happy death, or Euthanasia, I know of no better
preparation for it than the Vedanta philosophy."
"On the tree of Indian wisdom there is no fairer flower than the Upanishads, no finer fruit than the Vedanta philosophy." Prof. Paul Deussen Read Paul Deussen's: The Philosophy of Upanishads
Sir William Jones "Indeed if I may be allowed the
anachroni Sir Monier Monier Williams Please use Monier Williams' A Sanskrit English Dictionary. "In the West, major philosophical schools (such as rationalism, utilitarianism, existentialism, et. al) were each developed by a few highly individualistic thinkers in a chronological order over a relatively short period of time (2,500 years or thereabouts). In India, however, six orthodox schools developed simultaneously over thousands of years. While individuals may be associated with these schools (Shankara with Vedanta, for example), each philosophy represents centuries of development and refinement by many thinkers (not necessarily Hindu): no one genius is the guiding light behind a particular philosophy." Linda Brown Holt author of Viewing Meister Eckhart through the Bhagavad Gita
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Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr Please read an interview with the world-renowned physicist on Vedanta and science: IN GERMAN HERE IN ENGLISH HERE. About his thoughts: HERE Prof. Lothar Schafer Please watch Prof Lothar Schafer's interview in the Netherlands on Science and Non-Duality (or Advaita). HERE ______________
Friedrich von Schlegel Vedanta and Buddhism are the highlights of Indian philosophical thought. Helmuth von Glasenapp "I knew however that the forest thinkers of Asiaitic countries had leisurely pondered this problem long before the first city Greeks had begun to ponder it in Europe. Moreover there was this vital difference that whereas the Western thinkers usually claimed that nobody had discovered ultimate truth and that human limitations were so narrow that nobody was likely to discover it, the authors of old Asiatic books claimed that ultimate truth was certainly discoverable and that a few sages had definitely known it." Paul Brunton Yoga has been practiced in India for thousands of years as a vital part of Hinduism. Rev. Johan D. Tangelder Reverend Johan D, Tangelder was born on April 16, 1936, in Amsterdam, In 1954 he immigrated to Canada with his family
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"The history of Indian philosophy is the abridged history of the philosophy of the world." Dr Victor Cousin "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial…” Henry David Thoreau
The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the West. Dr Erwin Schrödinger "Śāstravid incorporates an example of the new research paradigm and at the same time facilitates further academic research based on the same approach. Its name, Śāstravid, which denotes someone knowledgeable about the commentarial treatises (śāstra), indicates its focus: to provide a key that unlocks the contents of the texts by bringing together the information contained in commentarial works, both ancient and modern, in such a way that it is easily accessible from the text itself. Śāstravid is more specific than other projects providing electronic texts since its focus is philosophical texts composed according to the root text/commentary model."
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INDOLOGISTS FROM THE NETHERLANDS Some famous Dutch Indologists 1. Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk(23 February 1824 – 17 August 1894) 2. Willem Caland (August 27, 1859, Brielle - March 23, 1932) 3. Jan Gonda (14 April 1905 and died in Utrecht on 28 July 1991). 4. Johannes Adrianus Bernardus van Buitenen (21 May 1928 - 21 September 1979) 5.. Johannes Gijsbertus de Casparis (31 May 1916, Eemnes - 19 June 2002)
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"It
is impossible to read the Vedanta, or the many fine compositions in
illustration of it, without believing that Pythagoras and Plato derived
their sublime theories from the same fountain with the sages of India."
sm,
the Hindus were Spinozites more than 2000 years before the existence of
Spinoza; Darwinians many centuries before the doctrine of evolution was
accepted by the scientists of our time, and before any word like
evolution existed in any language of the world."
"Even
the loftiest philosophy of the Europeans, the idealism of reason, as it
is set forth by Greek philosophers, appears in comparison with the
abundant light and vigor of Oriental idealism, like a feeble Promethean
spark in the full flood of heavenly glory of the noonday sun—faltering
and feeble, and ever ready to be extinguished."
"When
we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the
East, above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in
Europe, we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and
which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which the
European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend
the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of
the human race the native land of the highest philosophy."
