ISBN: 9788169980456
Author: Y. Masih
Year of Publication: Oct’ 2026
Binding: PB
Language: English
No. of Pages: 399
ABOUT THE BOOK : A Comparative Study of Religions has been written by a scholar who has occupied himself with the subject of religion for over fifty years. But no finality can be claimed. e reason is that religion deals with what is transcendent in the sense that it deals with what man is going to be. Advaitism terms this futuristic end as becoming Brahman, Jainism as regaining one Ís pristine glory, theists as becoming gold fit for the heaven. However, Bergson and other evolutionists would say that religion is a collective and co-operative effort of men to become gods. This simply means the divinising of man what Aurobindo calls 'supermind'. They refer to a state beyond human ills, beyond human infatuation and beyond the befogging of human intellect. This is known in Jainism as sarvajnata.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR : DR. Y MASIH Ph. D. (Edinburgh), D. Litt (Patna), was born in 1916. He retired in 1978 as a Professor from Magadh University but remained a UGC teacher of Philosophy from 1978 to 1983. Dr. Masih devoted his life in conducting and guiding research work in Philosophy. His important books are : Freudianism and Religion; The Hindu Religious Philosophy; The Classical Religious Philosophy of Hindus, Shankara's Universal Philosophy of Religion; A Critical History of Western Philosophy; Sant Kabir Ka Dharma Darshan, etc.