The Science Of Peace: An Attempt At An Exposition Of The First Principles Of The Science Of The Self

THE SCIENCE OF PEACE THE SCIENCE OF PEACE AN ATTEMPT AT AN EXPOSITION OF THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE SCIENCE OF THE SELF, I. E., Adhyatma-Vidya BY BHAGAVAN DAS M. A., Calcutta, LL. D. hon. causa Benares and Allahabad Author of The Science of the Emotions, The Science of the Sacred Word, The Science of the Self, The Essential Unity of All Religions, etc. Third Edition 1948 The Theosophical Publishing House Adyax, Madias, India Brahma-bindu Upanishaf 1 Words strung together in compilations, serve only to protect and hide knowledge, as husk and chaff the grain let the wise look for the grain and cast away the chaff of words when that grain of truth has been found. 1 Woulclst thou enclasp the beauty of the True Let pass the word the thought, the thought pursue Maulana Rum Live neither in the present, nor the future, but in the Eternal, . . . because nothing that is embodied, nothing that is conscious of separation, nothing that is out of the Eternal, can aid you . . . within you is the light of the world .... Read the larger word of life. Light on the Path There is a peace that passeth and yet passeth not the pure understanding. It abides everlastingly in the hearts of those that live in the Eternal. 3tfc R, flc 3 Tc TT I ska Upanishat, 6, 7 He that seeth all things in the Self, and the Self in all things, he thenceforth doubteth and sorroweth no more Vlll seekers after a final solution of the ultimate problems of life, who are not content with the solutions now extant. I believe that such an endeavour deserves sympathy I believe that it will be more successful if I have the help and co-operation of sympathetic friends than if it were left to my own unaided resources and I believe that youcan and will give such help effectively. This help from you is the more needed as the many distractions of a life, which past karma has thrown along the lines of office and the business of the householder, rather than those of literary pursuits and the studious leisure of the scholar, have, prevented me from making this work anything more than the merest outlines of the all-embracing subject of metaphysic, well defined as completely unified know ledge, treated therein and those outlines too, full of immaturity of thought, possible extravagance of express ion, and certain lack of the finish of scholarship. I therefore pray that you will look through this little book and, unless you think it wholly useless for the purpose mentioned, will send it back to me after having noted on the blank pages all obscure or doubtful and debatable or positively inaccurate and inconsistent state ments of fact, falseness or exaggeration of sentiment, and confusion or illogic of arguments and marshalling of ideas, that you may notice. Suggestions for improvement were received in chronological order from Pt. Ganganath Jha, Pro fessor of Samskrt, Muir Central College, Allahabad Babu Govinda Das, of Benares my elder brother IX Dr. Hiibbe-Schleiden, of Dohren bei Hannover, Germany Dr. J. H. Stirling, of Edinburgh Prof. J. E. McTaggart, of Trinity College, Cambridge Pt. M. S. Tripathi, Author of A Sketch of Vedanta Philosophy, of Nadiad P. T. Shrinivasa lyengar Esq., M. A., Principal, Narsingh Row College, Vizagapatam J. Scott Esq., M. A., Principal, Bahauddin College, Junagadh. Ayodhya Das Esq., B. A., Barrister-at-Law, Gorakhpur Pt. Sakharam G. Pandit, Branch Inspector, Theosophical Society, Benares Pt. BhavaniShankar, Branch Inspector, Theosophical Society, Benares M. Andre Chevrillon, of Paris B. Keightley Esq., M. A., Barrister-at-Law, of London. I gratefully record the names of these friends, person ally known or not known, but most truly friends in the spirit and helpers in a common cause. But far more than to all these friends are this book and I under obligations to Mrs...