Brahmin wisdomБраминская мудрость
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
2. Для того, чтобы вынуть занозившую ногу спицу, берут другую и с помощью ее вынимают занозу; когда же это сделано, бросают и ту и другую. Точно так же ум нужен только для того, чтобы устранить безумие, затемняющее зрение божественного я, но ум сам по себе не составляет достоинства. Он только орудие.
2. To draw out a thorn that has run into the foot, one takes another, and with its help draws out the splinter; and when this is done, one throws both away. In just the same way the mind is needed only to remove the folly that darkens the sight of the divine I, but the mind in itself has no merit. It is only an instrument.
From Râmakrishna: His Life and Sayings · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedThe close, that knowledge and ignorance, both “comprised truly under Nescience,” are left behind together, gives way to a sentence of Tolstoy’s own: “the mind in itself has no merit. It is only an instrument.”
In English · F. Max Müller (ed.), 1898332. When a sharp thorn finds its way into the sole of one's foot, one takes another thorn to get the former out, …
… and then casts both of them away. So relative knowledge alone can remove the relative ignorance which blinds the eye of the Self.
As both such knowledge and ignorance are comprised truly under Nescience, …
Source text: archive.orgTolstoy’s own version · Мысли мудрых людей на каждый деньДля того, чтобы вынуть занозившую ногу спицу, берут другую, чтобы извлечь ее; когда же это сделано, бросают и ту и другую. Точно так же ум нужен только для того, чтобы устранить безумие, затемняющее зрение божественного я, но, поистине, как ум, так и безумие не составляют истинного откровения.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Râmakrishna: His Life and Sayings (1898), Saying 332.
Ramakrishna's saying 332 in Max Müller's collection, its close rewritten. Müller: 'When a sharp thorn finds its way into the sole of one's foot, one takes another thorn to get the former out, and then casts both of them away. So relative knowledge alone can remove the relative ignorance which blinds the eye of the Self. As both such knowledge and ignorance are comprised truly under Nescience, the man who attains the highest Gnâna, or knowledge of the Absolute, does away with both knowledge and ignorance in the end, being himself free from all duality.' Tolstoy's 1903 version (Thoughts of Wise Men, 19 September), from the German of the Theosophischer Wegweiser (Jubilee vol. 40; not found online), already has «ум» and «безумие» (reason and unreason) for 'relative knowledge' and 'relative ignorance', and ends as Müller does, «как ум, так и безумие не составляют истинного откровения. Тот, кто достиг истинного откровения, того нельзя называть ни умным, ни безумным, потому что он освобождается от всякой двойственности» (both reason and unreason fall short of true revelation; he who has reached it is called neither wise nor foolish, being freed from all duality). For the Circle Tolstoy struck that ending and wrote «но ум сам по себе не составляет достоинства. Он только орудие» (but reason in itself is no merit; it is only a tool), fitting the day's theme, 'knowledge is a tool, not an end.' So Ramakrishna's point, that knowledge and ignorance are both left behind, becomes a point about reason as an instrument. The printed editions sign it «Браминская мудрость»; the 1903 book named Ramakrishna. The Bengali was not traced.
Translation note. «Спица» is any sharp spike; here it is a thorn. «Заноза», the word that follows, is a splinter.