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By way of a personal note, I can reveal to the reader that I was led to Sanskrit by an exposure to Indian philosophy while still a child. These early mystical interests gave way in the university to scholarly pursuits and, through reading the works of Franklin Edgerton, Louis Renou and Etienne Lamotte, I was introduced to the scientific study of the· past, to philology and the academic study of an ancient literature. In this period I wrote a number of books on Sanskrit aesthetics, concentrating on the sophisticated Indian notions of suggestion. This work has culminated in a three-volume study of the Dhvanyaloka and the Dhvanyalokalocana, for the Harvard Oriental Series. Eventually I found that I wanted to broaden my concern with India, to learn what was at the universal core of my studies and what could be of interest to everyone. In reading Indian literature, I came across so many bizarre tales and ideas that seemed incomprehensible and removed from the concerns of everyday life that I became troubled. Vedantic ideas of the world as a dream, for example, to which I had been particularly partial, seemed grandiose and megalomanic. I turned away with increasing scepticism from what I felt to be the hysterical outpourings of mystical and religious fanaticism.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Non-Western philosophy

• Full title: Oceanic Feeling
• Subtitle: The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India
• Author: J.M Masson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 213
• EAN: 9789400989719
• ISBN: 9400989717
• ID: 02190795
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 345 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. February 2012

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