"Discrepant" Quotes from Famous Books
... things and the soul in its endeavour to reach God must obtain deliverance from the fetters not only of matter but of individuality. Hence Hindu theology is in a perpetual oscillation illustrated by the discrepant statements found side by side in the Bhagavad-gita and other works. Indian temperament and Indian logic want a pantheistic God and a soul which can transcend personality, but religious thought and practice imply personality both ... — Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot |