A Study of the Indian Philosophy

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A study of Indian Philosophy is a collection of address the author delivered at the Central India Brahma Samaja, Indore. The book appeared in 1906 but its utility has not diminished with the march of Time. The author deals with multifarious problems of Indian Philosophy. Starting with the teaching of Gita, the author discusses various interpretations of this book and gives his own interpretation which is highly controversial and unique. From Gita the author travels to the Philosophy of Vedanta and discusses the Philosophy of this school as expounded by Shankar taking into consideration Shankar's answers to objections and finally discusses the practical aspect of the Vedanta.
The rest of this work deals with the Sankhya as ascribed to capita and the Yoga of Patanjali. The last four chapters discuss the Gita, the Sankhya and Mimamsas and takes up the relation of Gita to Vedanta. In the last chapter the author deals. with Shankar's reputation of the Sankhya. The book has been written. in a lucid and clear style. Prof. Desai's. work is the outcome of long experience of teaching Philosophy at the Holkar College, Indore. The author is familiar with the Sanskrit. text without whose knowledge it is impossible to the depth of the ocean of Indian Philosophy.
Both the students of Indian Philosophy and the scholars will find work thought provoking and highly i enlightening.

The following pages are the expanded . form of a few addresses I had the honour of delivering at the Central India Brahma Samaja, Indore, a short time ago.
At the commencement of the first chapter I have made just a passing reference to what I have called the Karma-yoga-Bhakti, a detailed account of which is given in the third chapter.
As I have expressly said, the criticism, passed against the teaching of the Gita in the fourth and the fifth chapter, is only provisional. I very much regret that I have not been able to fulfil the promise, made on page 105, to show how this criticism does not apply to the teaching of the Gita. All that I can say just now is that I fully remember that the debt remains to be paid, and that, life and health permitting, I shall, on an early occasion and in a separate volume, try to remove these objections, and also to discuss the objections which are usually brought against the teaching of Shankar. In order to show that this is not a mere dream, I may mention that I have already prepared the manuscript of nearly three-fourths of the other volume, which will deal with such topics as these :- Western thinkers on the Hindu Religion and Hindu philosophy. What is Pantheism ?-Is Shankar's Vedanta Pantheistic ?-Shankar. And Ramanuja, Ramanuja vs. Shankar. Defence of Shankar against Ramanuja. What is Asceticism? Is the teaching of the Gita as interpreted by Shankar Asceticism ? &e.
The only thing that now remains for me to do is to perform the pleasant duty of expressing my sincere gratefulness to Dr. Prabhakar Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, -whom I feel and shall ever feel proud to call my friend, for his having urged and encouraged me to undertake and carry on this study, to Principal Cholmondeley of this college for his having kindly gone through certain portions of the manuscript of this essay and made some linguistic corrections, and to Rao Bahadur Achyut Bhaskar Desai for his having generously helped me to get the book through the press.