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LECTURE THE SIXTH. The Final Philosophy of the Veda.

Booth and future life in parodise-mﬂorly notions of Hellm—

The idea. of retributionmumit of reward for good deeds m’l‘ho notion of “(1e:Lth~anew,” or “re~denth”--~I*Iow comes The belief in tronsrnigrntionm—Hindu doctrine of transmigratioanhe method of transmigrationm The doctrine of karma, or spiritual evolutionmI-Iow trnnsmigrntion and karma appear to Western minds m’l‘he pessimist theory of lifomCause of Hindu pessim mismeessimism and the perfect principle (Brahma) mDunlistie pessimism«~-—-Snlvetion through realisation of one’s own Brnhnmhoodm’l‘he conception of the demon, “Month, ” as life principlewAtman, the soul of the Universomﬂmhrnn, the spiritual essence of the UnivoreowFusion of Ktmon and BrahmawMiiyﬁ, or the world on illusionm’l‘he unknownblenoss of Brahma mernerson’s poem on the Brohmnm’rhe fulness of Brahma: a story of Yojnovalleya and his wife Moitreyi “Transition from philosophy to pietymHindu asceti» cismerofessor Huxloy’s critique of ascetieismeilgrim’s progress under the religion of Bmhmaw—Investituro and diseiplehoodm’l‘he life of the householderm'l‘he life of the forest-dweller and wondering asceticw—Ultime Thule.

HE Veda’s conception of the polytheistic gods, and the relations which the early Hindus have

established with them by means of their songs of

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