MODERN SAINTS OF BHAKTI TRADITION
Two polar extremes are possible between the sacred and the profane: while one stresses their individualities and, hence, their irreconcilability, the other emphasises their ultimate oneness. Although it may be unwise to pass a judgment on their ontological status, an integral approach in this regar...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2004
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| In: |
Journal of Dharma
Year: 2004, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 273-279 |
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BHAKTI TRADITION
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| Summary: | Two polar extremes are possible between the sacred and the profane: while one stresses their individualities and, hence, their irreconcilability, the other emphasises their ultimate oneness. Although it may be unwise to pass a judgment on their ontological status, an integral approach in this regard would be to initiate a perspective of reality within which nothing can be set aside merely because a logical framework does not approve of it. In fact, all through the human history systems abound: some moderate approaches, some extreme viewpoints; some positive and some negative; some creative while others quite nihilistic. All of these were built on the intellectual contributions of those stalwarts who initiated thought provoking but hair-splitting logical analyses in order to shed light into the inner recesses of reality. Apparently, they had a reasonable number of followers who invested their time and talent to promote and propagate such systems of thought; such attempts have been identified as the leaps in the history of human thought, in the human attempt to get hold of the true nature of the ultimate reality. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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