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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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Oceanic Feeling
Book Subtitle: The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Ancient India
Authors: J. Moussaieff Masson
Series Title: Studies of Classical India
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8969-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1980
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1050-5Published: 30 June 1980
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-8971-9Published: 12 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8969-6Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 213
Topics: Non-Western Philosophy