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by an intense love of his subject and a profound regard for the
honour of Shri Shankaracharya. When we hear writers of repute
confounding pantheism, idealism, realism, nonism, nihilism and
other isms with Shri Shankaracharya's Vedanta, it is certainly in
cumbent on those who value the truth to comme forward and put
these purblind babblers in the right .
१)
Many European and a few Indian critics of the Vedanta
philosophy express themselves as fully convinced that it is pai•
theistic. And yet, in reality, such is by no means the truth.
For Pantheism is defined as the doctrine that the Universe taken
or conceived of as a whole is God, or the doctrine that there is
no God but the combined forces and laws which are manifested
in the existing Universe. It is plain that the Vedanta never
denies the existence of God. It holds that while the idea of a God
separate from man, regarded as an object of veneration and love,
is not a contradiction of the real truth yet it represents want
of ability to perceive that truth in its reality, and says that
the highest truth is reached when we are able to see one only,
not Gad and nature, but God, and God alone. It does not
say that the combined forces and laws which are manifested
in the existing Universe go to make up the conception God.
'Then what does the Vedanta mean, when it says that we should
see God in everything? The whole difference lies in one word.
Where the Pantheist sees nature as God, the Vedantist sees God
in nature. So long as we look upon tree as tree, it is nothing
more than a tree; but when we dive deep, leaving the 21se and
for behind, and try to realise the inner essence of the tree, we
see nothing but God. All the differences in the world are
differences of time, space, and causality (देश-कालनिमित्तानि)
or of names and forms' (नामरूपे); and that these names and
formes ,' or 'tinge , space, and causality ' are, deeply con:
sidered, but forms of the mind, ४. e. , appearances or pictures
projected by the mind; and when the mind is purified, subdued,
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