The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c5.s5.3

c5.s5.3

His own position has been clearly exhibited by himself. It is not true, says he, that the strong tendency towards the inner and the other-worldly absorbed all the energies and led to inactivity and retreat from life (*Es ist doch nicht so, dass die starke Richtung auf das Innere und das Jenseitge nun etwa alle Kräfte absorbiert und zu Lebensabkehr und Untätigkeit geführt hätte*). In his judgment this was not the case even in Buddhism in which the nothingness of life was most strongly brought out (p. 86).