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essential tenets of that school, or indifferent to
a proposition of that kind. For Vyasa is really
and essentially the inspirer, systematiser, and
promulgator of all that is best in Hinduism.
Sankara calls him the Vedacharya, the teacher
of the Vedas, and Srikantha-the author of the
Bhashya of the Pasupata school-calls him
"Sarvajna-Sikhamani," "the highest gem
among the knowers of everything." No Hindu
worth the name an be found prepared or
willing to concede that the finest and ripest
product of his deathless work for humanity can
contain anything to which we cannot accede, or
fail to contain anything which we value as an
essential part of our faith. The idea, therefore,
of some Western Orientalists that there is
a divergence of some kind between the teaching
of the Upanishads and the system built up by
Vyasa in the Sutras can find no favour with
Hindu thinkers and teachers.
We next deal with the astounding conclu-
sion arrived at by Dr. Thibaut-a conclusion
which Colonel Jacob regards as "impossible to
resist" that neither the older Upanishads nor
the Sutras contain any of the essential doctrines
essential tenets of that school, or indifferent to
a proposition of that kind. For Vyasa is really
and essentially the inspirer, systematiser, and
promulgator of all that is best in Hinduism.
Sankara calls him the Vedacharya, the teacher
of the Vedas, and Srikantha-the author of the
Bhashya of the Pasupata school-calls him
"Sarvajna-Sikhamani," "the highest gem
among the knowers of everything." No Hindu
worth the name an be found prepared or
willing to concede that the finest and ripest
product of his deathless work for humanity can
contain anything to which we cannot accede, or
fail to contain anything which we value as an
essential part of our faith. The idea, therefore,
of some Western Orientalists that there is
a divergence of some kind between the teaching
of the Upanishads and the system built up by
Vyasa in the Sutras can find no favour with
Hindu thinkers and teachers.
We next deal with the astounding conclu-
sion arrived at by Dr. Thibaut-a conclusion
which Colonel Jacob regards as "impossible to
resist" that neither the older Upanishads nor
the Sutras contain any of the essential doctrines