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not be declared to be contrary to reasoning."
As a matter of fact the Upanishads have always
been regarded as a consistent system of doctrine.
The Rishis maintained the traditions of the
system. The Sutras of Badarayana are the
treatise in which those traditions are embodied
in a closely reasoned form. We have already
exposed the baselessness of Dr. Thibaut's idea
that Sankara invented a system of Vedanta from
his own inner cogitations. The Upanishads
themselves declare that the doctrine taught by
them has been transmitted through a long
succession of teachers beginning with "Svayam-
bhu Brahma" (Brahma the Self-born) mention-
ed in the Vamsa-brahmana. So it cannot be
right to say that any one discovered or created
the ideas of the Vedanta system by a process of
intuition or inspiration. Especially is it
extremely inappropriate to speak, as Dr.
Thibaut does, of "the methods which the
different commentators employ in systematising
the contents of the Upanishads", -for neither
the methods nor the system can be said
be their own, when even the seers of
the Upanishads claim to transmit the ancient
to
not be declared to be contrary to reasoning."
As a matter of fact the Upanishads have always
been regarded as a consistent system of doctrine.
The Rishis maintained the traditions of the
system. The Sutras of Badarayana are the
treatise in which those traditions are embodied
in a closely reasoned form. We have already
exposed the baselessness of Dr. Thibaut's idea
that Sankara invented a system of Vedanta from
his own inner cogitations. The Upanishads
themselves declare that the doctrine taught by
them has been transmitted through a long
succession of teachers beginning with "Svayam-
bhu Brahma" (Brahma the Self-born) mention-
ed in the Vamsa-brahmana. So it cannot be
right to say that any one discovered or created
the ideas of the Vedanta system by a process of
intuition or inspiration. Especially is it
extremely inappropriate to speak, as Dr.
Thibaut does, of "the methods which the
different commentators employ in systematising
the contents of the Upanishads", -for neither
the methods nor the system can be said
be their own, when even the seers of
the Upanishads claim to transmit the ancient
to