A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy c11.59

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Asuras, gospel of, p. 266. Asurya, as connected with Assyrian, p. 157. Āśvala, ritualistic questions of, p. 20; and Yājñavalkya, p. 56. Aśvapati Kaikeya, a synthetical philosopher, p. 38; his synthesis of cosmological doctrines, p. 23; his doctrine of the Universal Ātman as Vaiśvānara, p. 47. Aśvattha, in the Kaṭhopaniṣad, p. 103; the description of, in the Upanishads, p. 198; the description of, in the Bhagavadgītā, p. 199; as real in the Upanishads, and unreal in the Bhagavadgītā, p. 199. Aśvins and Dadhyach, the story of, p. 51. Atharvaveda, transition from Rigveda to, pp. 4-5; a storehouse of the black art of the ancients, p. 5; conception of Rudra-Śiva, p. 193. Ātman, the ballast of Nature, p. 4; proofs of, subjective and objective, p. 24; as the inspirer of sense-functions, p. 24; realisation of, in the various worlds, pp. 28-29; as Turya or the fourth, p. 36; as the source of all power, knowledge, and bliss, p. 53; as the origin of things, pp. 100-101; as a powerless being, p. 101; as the self-conscious aspect of the Individual Self, p. 140; as the substratum of creation, p. 209; as the material cause of the universe, p. 209; as the instrumental cause of the world p. 209; as the source of activity, p. 217; compared to the lute-player, or the drum-beater, or the conch-blower, p. 217; original meaning of, in the Upanishads and Plato, p. 246; the ultimate category of existence, p. 247; as the eternal Subject of knowledge, p. 272; as the highest object of desire, p. 302; conception of, the quintessence of the teachings of the Upanishads, p. 325; as self-consciousness, p. 335; as the fourth dimension of metaphysics, p. 336; as separable from the body, as a blade from its sheath, p. 341, or as wheat from chaff, p. 342; as immanent in the body as a razor in a razor-case, p. 342, or as oil in sesamum, p. 342; reconciliation of opposites in, p. 346. Ātmanism, practical, of Yājñavalkya, p. 19. Attention, involving suspension of breath, pp. 114-115. Audile experience, p. 343. Augustine, on knowledge as ignorance, p. 272. Austerlitz campaigns, p. 233. Autonomy, as the true principle of morality, p. 291; in the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgītā, p. 292. Avabhṛitha, the bath at the end of sacrifice, p. 202.