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The Oceanic Feeling - The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India (Hardcover, 1980 ed.)
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The Oceanic Feeling - The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India (Hardcover, 1980 ed.)
Series: Studies of Classical India, 3
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By way of a personal note, I can reveal to the reader that I was
led to Sanskrit by an exposure to Indian philosophy while still a
child. These early mystical interests gave way in the university to
scholarly pursuits and, through reading the works of Franklin
Edgerton, Louis Renou and Etienne Lamotte, I was introduced to the
scientific study of the* past, to philology and the academic study
of an ancient literature. In this period I wrote a number of books
on Sanskrit aesthetics, concentrating on the sophisticated Indian
notions of suggestion. This work has culminated in a three-volume
study of the Dhvanyaloka and the Dhvanyalokalocana, for the Harvard
Oriental Series. Eventually I found that I wanted to broaden my
concern with India, to learn what was at the universal core of my
studies and what could be of interest to everyone. In reading
Indian literature, I came across so many bizarre tales and ideas
that seemed incomprehensible and removed from the concerns of
everyday life that I became troubled. Vedantic ideas of the world
as a dream, for example, to which I had been particularly partial,
seemed grandiose and megalomanic. I turned away with increasing
scepticism from what I felt to be the hysterical outpourings of
mystical and religious fanaticism.
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