TIME AND ETERNITY
1990, viii+107 pp. bib., ref.,
index ISBN: 81-85503-00-1: Rs 110 (HB)
| Man's awareness of Time has been articulated in ancient
and modern civilisations through cosmologies, metaphysics, religion, theology and the
arts. Coomaraswamy propounds that though we live in Time, our deliverance lies in
Eternity. All religions make this distinction, what is merely 'everlasting' or 'perpetual' and what is 'eternal'. To probe into this mystery Coomaraswamy provides us with a detailed account of the teachings of the main world religions. This edition embodies all marginal corrections which Coomaraswamy made on the first edition published forty years ago.
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| ANANDA K.COOMARASWAMY , a reputed scholar of Indian art and culture, was a man of prodigious learning, equally at home in vedic, classical, medieval, European and Islamic literature. Conversant with about a dozen languages, he was an art critic, a historian, a philosopher and metaphysician whose mind encompassed the sum total of Eastern and Western traditions of learning and thought. |
