… upon severe analysis you will always find that the essence of Buddhism was all borrowed from the same Upanishads; even the ethics, the so-called great and wonderful ethics of Buddhism, were there word for word, in some one or other of the Upanishads;
and so all the good doctrines of the Jains were there, minus their vagaries.
In the Upanishads, also, we find the germs of all the subsequent development of Indian religious thought.
Sometimes it has been urged without any ground whatsoever that there is no ideal of Bhakti in the Upanishads.
Those that have been students of the Upanishads know that that is not true at all. There is enough of Bhakti in every Upanishad if you will only seek for it; but many of these ideas which are found so fully developed in later times in the Puranas and other Smritis are only in the germ in the Upanishads. The sketch, the skeleton, was there as it were.
It was filled in in some of the Puranas.
But there is not one full-grown Indian ideal that cannot be traced back to the same source -- the Upanishads.
- Swami Vivekananda, Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
and so all the good doctrines of the Jains were there, minus their vagaries.
In the Upanishads, also, we find the germs of all the subsequent development of Indian religious thought.
Sometimes it has been urged without any ground whatsoever that there is no ideal of Bhakti in the Upanishads.
Those that have been students of the Upanishads know that that is not true at all. There is enough of Bhakti in every Upanishad if you will only seek for it; but many of these ideas which are found so fully developed in later times in the Puranas and other Smritis are only in the germ in the Upanishads. The sketch, the skeleton, was there as it were.
It was filled in in some of the Puranas.
But there is not one full-grown Indian ideal that cannot be traced back to the same source -- the Upanishads.
- Swami Vivekananda, Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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