Atma Bodha (Die Erkenntnis des Geistes)
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- APAAdi Shankara. (n.d.). Atma Bodha (The Knowledge of Spirit) [Atma Bodha (Die Erkenntnis des Geistes)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/adi-shankara/atma-bodha-the-knowledge-of-spirit
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- ChicagoAdi Shankara. Atma Bodha (The Knowledge of Spirit) [Atma Bodha (Die Erkenntnis des Geistes)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/adi-shankara/atma-bodha-the-knowledge-of-spirit.
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Ātma Bodha, die Erkenntnis des Selbst.
Kontext und Geschichte
Achtundsechzig Verse, Shankara (8. Jh.) zugeschrieben, die kürzeste Einführung in den Advaita-Vedānta: die Einzelseele und das Brahman sind eins, und der Unterschied ist Unwissenheit. Für das indische Denken ist Shankara, was Thomas von Aquin für die Scholastik ist — der Systematiker, der das Vokabular aller Nachfolgenden festlegt. Englische Übersetzung von J. Taylor, M.D. (Bombay, 1812) aus dem Sanskrit, im Nachdruck von 1872; gemeinfrei. Sie ist zwei Jahrhunderte alt, und das merkt man. Das Original ist Sanskrit, und zitiert werden sollte das Original, aber von diesem Werk gibt es hier nur die Übersetzung.
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25. As spirit is incapable of change, and intellect is not comprehended in understanding, the soul, being conversant with impure principles, ignorantly says, Iam, andis thus deluded?8, 26. Conceiving that he is soul, man becomes afraid, like a person who mistakes a piece of cord fora serpent; but his fear is removed by the perception that he is not soul, but the universal spirit?®. 18. I almost despair of rendering this passage perfectly intelligible but the following appears to be its meaning:—Spirit is incapable of change or mutation, and pure intellect does not, like understanding, display active qualities; accordingly, the vital soul being acquainted with perceptions only which arise from the active principles of things, and not discerning the nature of Spirit inits original, quescent state, ~—conceives that itsclf acts and exists as a separate individual; and from this ignorance proceeds the illusion of oxternal beings. The active principles of nature are called impure, because action is supposed to be the cause of those passions and affections which defile the soul. 19, Com.—Man attributes to himself the nature of soul, and thus believing in‘the existence of another being, he is filled with fear; but when he is instructed in the doctrines of the Shastras by his teacher, and beholds by the eye of reason, that he is not soul, but the indivisible, living, happy, one Spirit, his fear is removed; he is delivered from pain, and enjoys supreme bliss. —It may be proper to remark, that Atma or Spirit, primarily signifies Being, Which, according to this system, is without qualities: Jiva or Soul, is Being in a sentient state; that which feols, acts, and enjoys. Perhaps it would have been more correct to have translated Atma, Being; and Jiva, Sensation. See Appendix, KNOWLEDGE OF SPIRIT. lll 27. Spirit causes the understanding, organs of sense, $c, to appear, as a lamp renders objects visible; but spirit is not made manifest by these gross natures. 28.…