The Music of Hindostan c8.4

c8.4

In the first place, Brahman philosophy draws no real distinction between what a thing ‘is’ and what it ‘signifies’. Time and place, so integral a part for the Western of what a thing is, are for the Hindu accidents, not essentials. It is not that he cannot conceive or manipulate their divisions; astronomy, for instance, has been one of his strong points; but that they do not, for him, add to the significance nor therefore to the nature of the phenomenon.