Sadhana
Start Publishing LLC · Paperback · January 28, 2013
All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit-- the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.
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- Who it’s for
- Tagore considers how sacred words keep unfolding through history and individual experience.
- Genres
- Hinduism - General, Hindu Thought, Mysticism
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, January 28, 2013
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All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit-- the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history. We get to know the real meaning of Christianity by observing its living aspect at the present moment-- however different that may be, even in important respects, from the Christianity of earlier periods.
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For western scholars the great religious scriptures of India seem to possess merely a retrospective archaeological interest; but to us they are of living importance, and we cannot help thinking that they lose their significance when exhibited in labelled cases-- mummied specimens of human thought and aspiration, preserved for all time in the wrappings of erudition. The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.
Living Words
Tagore considers how sacred words keep unfolding through history and individual experience.
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- A view of scripture as living thought, not a relic
- Reflections on how spiritual meaning changes with life
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- An essayistic challenge to fixed, purely scholarly readings
- A focus on spirit over literal interpretation
Where it sits
| Hindu Thought | 50% |
|---|---|
| Hinduism - General | 50% |
| Mysticism | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Eastern Philosophy
- Authors
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- January 28, 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Eastern Philosophy