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Can the Absolute Become the Relative? The one question that is most difficult to grasp in understanding the Advaita philosophy, and the one question that will be asked again and again and that will …

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Life a Bundle of Contradictions "Trailing clouds of glory we come," says the poet. Not all of us come as trailing clouds of glory however; some of us come as trailing black fogs; there can be no …

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Gods Grow With Man We have seen how the idea of Mâyâ, which forms, as it were, one of the basic doctrines of the Advaita Vedanta, is, in its germs, found even in the Samhitâs, and that in reality …

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Theory of Cyclic Process of Evolution Here we stand, and our eyes look forward sometimes miles ahead. Man has been doing that since he began to think. He is always looking forward, looking ahead. …

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The Spiritual Essence in Man According to the Advaita philosophy, there is only one thing real in the universe, which it calls Brahman; everything else is unreal, manifested and manufactured out of …

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Place of Vedanta in Indian Philosophy Many of you have read Max Müller's celebrated book, Three Lectures on the Vedanta Philosophy, and some of you may, perhaps, have read, in German, …

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