The Niti and Vairagya Satakas of Bhartrhari Motilal Banarsidass Owen Flanagan

Owen Flanagan

(12) In Reality of the Future the author develops the thesis that the reality of the future expected on a known ground cannot be said to be an object of knowledge and that the future is real only to will and to faith

They also usually speak of states of dissolution (pralaya) when there is water and other kinds of matter but no animals or plants (and no conscious states belonging to any animals or plants)

Kenneth Williams (Author

this Vedic anthology will make direct and fruitful knowledge of the Vedas available to a wider range of people than the small elite of pandits and Indologists

The Niti and Vairagya Satakas of Bhartrhari Motilal Banarsidass Owen FlanaganAbout The Book (277 Pgs.): The Satakas are original works. They are three in number, viz. Sringara, Niti and Vairagya. They must have been composed by the poet after he had renounced the world. Probably the Niti Sataka was written first, then followed the Sringara and lastly the Vairagya Sataka. In the Niti Sataka Bhartrhari inculcates certain principles intended to guide men in their daily life. The first and foremost of these is Self respect. He