Taittiriya Upanisad, III. Cf. St. Augustine, Confessions, VII, 23.
2.
RadhakrishnanS.Religion and Society. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1947, 105.
3.
Ibid., 105.
4.
The Vedas and the Upanisads contained the principles of dharma. These principles were later developed from time to time under changed circumstances in the different Dharma-Sutras (works of aphorism on dharma) by Gautama, Apastamba, Vasistha, Baudhayana and Manu. Gautama's work was the earliest. The Code of Manu, known as the Great Law Book of India, is supposed by scholars to date from about A.D. 100 and to be based on an earlier work which is no longer extant. Most of these works are available in English translation in the Sacred Books of the East series, edited by MullerFriedrich Max. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1879–1910), 50 vols.
5.
Brhadāranyaka Upanisad, I, 3, 27.
6.
Subjectively, imperfection is the result of ignorance about the nature of Reality. But objectively, that is, why the world is such as to leave a gap between perfection and imperfection, we do not know. This is māyā or ultimate mystery.
7.
This distinction between subjective and objective is, however, not ultimate. They are both metaphysically objective. See Chāndogya Upanisad, VIII, 7–12, and Taittiriya Upanisad, II, 1, 7.
8.
Vedanta Sutra, I, 1, 2, and II, 2, 25–27.
9.
RadhakrishnanS.The Principal Upanisads. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1953, 73–74.
10.
RadhakrishnanS.Indian Philosophy. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1922, Vol. I, 28.
11.
Apastamba. Dharma-Sutra, I, 7, 2.
12.
RadhakrishnanS.Religion and Society, 107.
13.
Mundaka Upanisad, I, 1, 4; Chāndogya Upanisad, VII, 1; Brhdāranyaka Upanisad, VI, 2, et passim
14.
Mundaka Upanisad, I, 1, 4–5. Eng. Tr., RadhakrishnanS., The Principal Upanisads, 672.
15.
Chāndogya Upanisad, VII, 1–26. Eng. Tr., RadhakrishnanS., The Principal Upanisads, 468–469.
16.
Katha Upanisad, II, 1, l. Eng. Tr., RadhakrishnanS., The Principal Upanisads, 630. Cf. Plato, Phaedo
17.
Plato, The Republic, VII. BuchananS. ed. The Portable Plato, The Viking Press, New York, 1955, 551.
18.
Chāndogya Upanisad, VI, 1, 2–3. Eng. Tr., RadhakrishnanS., The Principal Upanisads, 446.
19.
Ibid., VI, 12, 1–3. Eng. Tr., RadhakrishnanS., The Principal Upanisads, 462.
20.
Katha Upanisad, I, 2, 23.
21.
Brhdāranyaka Upanisad, IV, 4, 21.
22.
SeeRadhakrishnanS., Indian Philosophy, Vol. II, 446.
23.
Chāndogya Upanisad, IV, 10, 2.
24.
Ibid., V, 3, 7, and Brhdāranyaka Upanisad, VI, 2, 6.
25.
RadhakrishnanS., The Principal Upanisads, 107.
26.
Bhagavatgita, XII, 9–11.
27.
Gautama, Dharma-Sutra, XI, 3 and 19.
28.
Manu, Dharma-Sutra, IX, 328–332.
29.
KeayF. E., Indian Education in Ancient and Later Times. Oxford University Press, 1938, 193.
30.
Bhagavatgitā, II, et passim
31.
“Death in performing one's own duty is preferable; performance of the duty of others is dangerous”. Manu, Dharma-Sutra, VII.
