CHAPTER X

Perfection

Tenth Stanza of the Hymn--The Highest end--The Eight Siddhis--Glory of the Divine Contemplation--Love of God and Guru necessary for Wisdom. pp. <page 180>-189

II. SURESVARCHARYA'S PRANAVA VARTIKA

Purpose of the tract--The Avyakrita--the Sutra or Hiranyagarbha. The three aspects of manifested Brahman--Visva and his unity with the Viraj--Taijasa and his unity with the Hiranyagarbha--Prajna and his unity with I'svara--The One Reality--Contemplation of A'tman by Pranava--Jivan-mukti--Conclusion. pp. <page 190>-209

III. DAKSHINAMURTI-UPANISHAD

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INTRODUCTION.

"Whoso hath highest love for God, and for the Guru as for God, to that Mahatman, the truths here taught shine in full." (Svetasvatara-Upanishad, VI., 23). These are the words with which the Upanishad concludes its teaching and with which Suresvaracharya, like many other teachers, closes his exposition of the Vedanta Doctrine. They form the key-note of the whole Vedic Religion as of all other Religious systems based on Revelation. It behoves, therefore, the student of spiritual wisdom,--nay, it behoves every seeker after Truth,--to study and understand the principle enunciated in the passage quoted above. To this end we have first to determine what place Revelation occupies in a religious system and how it helps man to realise truth. The Leda which is composed of different parts embodying teachings suited to different classes of people is, even in the form in which we have it, one of the oldest, if not the oldest, Scriptures accepted by large masses of people, revealing truths derived from the most

trustworthy source, from God Himself. It may, therefore, be taken as the type of Revelation intended to help the growth of man towards the attainment of his highest end.