Zenoga Book -Dedication समर्पण

 

समर्पण

उन सभी पवित्र गुरुओं को और भविष्य के अवतार भगवान एम.एम. (रेक्स इम्पेरटोरिस लेमुरियन -राजा लेमुरियन) जिन्होंने लेखक को मानव जाति के लाभ के लिए इस पुस्तक को संकलित करने में मदद की।

उनका वादा है:

"जो कोई भी इस पुस्तक को  सम्मान के साथ रखता है , हालांकि वह यह पढ़ता है या नहीं,उनका आशीर्वाद प्राप्त करेगा ।जो इस पुस्तक को किसी अन्य के लिए उपहार के रूप में खरीदता है, उससे हानि दूर रहती है  ।

-लुमेरिआ की आकाशवाणी

 

Lemuria was a continent that existed about thirty-four million years ago, according to The Secret Doctrine, and was the home of the Third Root-Race. It was destroyed by volcanic fires and most of its land lies now under the ocean.

 

Book Review : The Conquest of Suffering by P. J. Saher

 

 Saher describes this book as "an enlarged anthology of George Grimm's Works on Buddhist Philosophy and Metaphysics." It follows the example of Grimm (1868-1945), the German jurist and orientalist, in interpreting Buddhist doctrine to show its harmony with the traditions of Upanisads and Vedanta. Central to Grimm's, and Saher's, position is a restatement of the anatta idea: "The Buddha went to great
pains to explain what a man was not, .. . but (he) left the 'Self' which, most obviously, existed, being present in some sense or other. This is the literal meaning of anatta, which does not mean "not a Self," but "not my Self," and so presupposes the same Self" (p. 68).

 The book should not be read as a work of textual criticism or of historical investigation, but as an example of the encounter between Europeans and Asian thought. Perhaps it might be read in the light of discussions of the absolute in Buddhism earlier in this century, in which Dhamma was thought to be analogous or equated with atta or Brahman.

While Saher follows the pattern of Grimm's interpretations, the book is by no means an anthology of Grimm's writings; Grimm's works are cited a total of five times. Unfortunately, Saher has also adopted Grimm's practice of imprecise annotation of quotations, making reference to sources often impossible.
The volume also contains a brief bibliography of George Grimm, which, despite its appellation, is not a listing of his "Complete Works."                                                                                                                              

 CHARLES HALLISEY                                                                                                            UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

 

Review by: Charles Hallisey
Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 101, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1981), p. 506
Published by: American Oriental Society
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/601363 .

The Conquest of Suffering. By P. J. SAHER. Pp. xvi + 172.
Delhi: MOTILAL BARNASIDASS. 1977. Rs. 50.00.

The Absolute of the Buddha

 

THE Latin word absolutus is the past participle of absolvere, which means 'to loosen, to detach'. Therefore 'absolute' literally means 'detached', and so the Absolute is the 'loosened, the detached'. In Pali, the language of the Buddhist Canon, the word vimutta, as the past participle of vimuncati has exactly the same meaning, for the verb also means 'to release, to detach'. Vimutta is, therefore, identical with Absolute. Now this very word is regularly used by the Buddha when he speaks of a monk who has become holy, of a Tathagata, of a 'Perfect One'.

"A Perfect One, released (vimutta) from bodily form, from sensation, from perception, from activities of the mind, from concepts, is deep, immeasurable and unfathomable as the ocean."

Accordingly, the Buddha has proclaimed as the ultimate goal of the holy course of life (brahmachariya) taught by him, that we attain deliverance or release (vimokha) and thus become absolute (vimutta).

To this Absolute of the Buddha the concept of being no longer applies ( See Grimm's Doctrine of the Buddha, p. 133.), a concept which Western philosophers attribute to their 'Absolute'. Concepts relating to the absolute are purely empirical and for this reason apply only to the realities that are accessible to our senses. The Buddha calls the substratum of the phenomenal world, and hence what is termed the absolute reality, the 'realm of Nibbana, free from all attributes' (anupadisesanibbanadhatu). Of this realm he states merely that, however many monks may have become absolute and extinct in it, one cannot detect either a reduction or an increase in it:

• Just as, monks, all rivers in the world enter the great ocean and all the waters of the atmosphere are discharged into it, and one cannot detect thereby either a reduction or an increase in the great ocean, so also, however many monks may have become extinct in the realm of Nibbana that is free from all attributes, one cannot thereby detect either a reduction or an increase in this realm.

Reproduced from The Mountain Path, April 1973.

Note:
This article was published as it is in " The Mountain Path" 2002" and  written by DR. P. J. SAHER.

About Dr. P. J. Saher:
Dr. P. J. Saher, a Parsi doctor living at Muenster in West Germany, is President of the Internationale Gesellschaft fur Religionsphilosophie und Geistesgeschichte. He is also a close friend of the Altbuddhistische Gemeinde of Utting am Ammersee, which has become The Mountain Path agent for
Germany and Austria.

Note : The only objective of sharing this article is to compile the thoughts and work of Dr. P.J. Saher at one place for benefit of his followers.

He Ever Lives ( Poetry by Dr. P. J. Saher)

Say not he is dead, he lives
Immortal spirit knows no end
Rising up again and again
Like some spring perennial
Spurting f r om truth's fount.
Up the mountain path we go
With one who reached its peak
O ! comrade give your hand to me
And let m e join your song.
Shall such a petty thing as death
Keep him away from us ?
Who lived in Bhagavan's presence
Breathing Arunachala's dust.
Let us mirthfully laugh
At all cenotaphs
And allow corpses as manure for corn ;
The SELF remains untouched by this
As if he were never born.

Note:
This article was published as it is in " The Mountain Path" Vol 7 No. 4 Oct 1970" and  written by DR. P. J. SAHER.

About Dr. P. J. Saher:
Dr. P. J. Saher, a Parsi doctor living at Muenster in West Germany, is President of the Internationale Gesellschaft fur Religionsphilosophie und Geistesgeschichte. He is also a close friend of the Altbuddhistische Gemeinde of Utting am Ammersee, which has become The Mountain Path agent for
Germany and Austria.

Note : The only objective of sharing this article is to compile the thoughts and work of Dr. P.J. Saher at one place for benefit of his followers.