Project Gutenberg 2025-06-07 Public domain in the USA. 171 Mester, János 1879 1954 Mester, Janos Kelet nagy gondolkodói $aBudapest :$bFranklin-Társulat, $c1928. Kultura és tudomány Albert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library Kelet nagy gondolkodói by János Mester is a scholarly study of Eastern philosophy written in the early 20th century. Centered on how potent ideas shape individuals and nations, it defends the serious study of Asian thought and begins by mapping Indian traditions from the Vedas to the Upanishads, with special attention to ritual versus inner knowledge and the concepts of brahman and atman. The work promises a wide, historically grounded survey of major Eastern thinkers and systems. The opening of the work argues that books and ideas govern both public morals and personal character more powerfully than sensational literature, and it urges readers to seek ideas at their sources. It rebuts the notion that the East has only religion and no philosophy, calls for a synthesis that respects culture and epoch but emphasizes great individuals, and outlines the factors shaping the history of philosophy (universal human problems, cultural context, and personal genius). It then sketches the “Indian soul” as yearning for unity and inner peace, inclined to mystic contemplation, often passive and pessimistic, yet sustained by karma and rebirth. From there it introduces the Vedas: the four collections and their priestly functions; the layers (Samhita, Brahmana, Upanishad, Sutra); and the split between outward ritual law (dharma) and inward wisdom (brahman). A brief survey of the Rigveda traces a movement from high monotheistic tones (Varuna) to polytheism and henotheism (Indra), early doubts, and an initial heaven–hell scheme later giving way to transmigration. The section closes by developing the Brahmana and Upanishadic turn to brahman (the absolute and the sacred word) and atman (the self), their identification in the vedanta (“tat tvam asi”), and the four states of consciousness culminating in the ecstatic union. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250528125610mester 1928 hu Reading ease score: 63.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. hu Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Indic BL Text Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Religion/Spirituality 474150 2025-07-30T07:16:23.010780 text/html 456127 2025-06-07T22:06:28 text/html 259804 2025-07-30T07:16:32.679871 application/epub+zip 262947 2025-07-30T07:16:26.435803 application/epub+zip 251483 2025-07-30T07:16:24.922744 application/epub+zip 486745 2025-07-30T07:16:37.124723 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 456893 2025-07-30T07:16:31.615726 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 403027 2025-07-30T07:16:21.880762 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 383222 2025-06-07T22:06:28 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13959 2025-07-30T07:16:37.270675 application/rdf+xml 13931 2025-07-30T07:16:25.576719 image/jpeg 4047 2025-07-30T07:16:25.285723 image/jpeg 238151 2025-07-30T07:16:23.045797 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog hu.wikipedia