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Surendranath Dasgupta

Born

in Kushita, British India (now Bangladesh)

October 18, 1887

Died

December 18, 1952

Genre

Philosophy, History

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Surendranath Dasgupta, Ph.D. (Contemporary European Philosophy, Cambridge University, 1922; Ph.D., Indian philosophy, University of Calcutta, 1920; M.A., Western philosophy, U. Calcutta, 1910; M.A., Sanskrit College, 1908), was King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta, 1942–1945. Previously he served as principal of Sanskrit College, Calcutta, from 1931, after a time as professor of philosophy at Presidency University, Kolkata. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1939.

His daughter Maitreyi Devi became a well-known novelist and poet, and another daughter Chitrita Devi also became a novelist. ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 200 ratings · 21 reviews · 66 distinct works

	Hindu Mysticism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1927 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Indian Philosophy [5 Volume Set] 3.72 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1922 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 2 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1933 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yoga as Philosophy and Religion 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1924 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol 5: Southern Schools of Saivism 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Indian Philosophy (Vol. 4) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1949 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Indian Philosophy V3 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1940 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Indian Idealism 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1933 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yoga Philosophy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1981 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Love of God is not a thing which we produce in ourselves by excessive brooding or by self-hypnotism or by any other method. It is a permanent flame, slowly burning in the caverns of all our hearts. […] The basis of all religions is this love of God. For if this love of God were not vital to us, all that the great prophets have been trying to preach would have been unreal and futile. If it were not a real experience which in some sense is shared by us all, an experience which ennobles us and raises us far above the selfish pettinesses of life, no prophet and no religious deed would be able to appeal to our higher natures and establish the claims of religion.”
― Surendranath Dasgupta, Hindu Mysticism

tags: bhakti, love-of-god, religion

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“the agency of a creator, who is not however always the starting point, and we find that the theory of evolution is combined with the theory of creation, so that Prajâpati is sometimes spoken of as the creator while at other times the creator is said to have floated in the primeval water as a cosmic golden egg. Eschatology;”
― Surendranath Dasgupta, A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1

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“No special emphasis is given in the Upani@sads to the sex-desire or the desire for a son; for, being called kâma, whatever was the desire for a son was the same as the desire for money and the desire for money was the same as any other worldly desire (B@rh. IV. iv. 22), and hence sex-desires stand on the same plane as any other desire. _____________________________________________________________________ [Footnote”
― Surendranath Dasgupta, A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

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