The Yogi and the Devotee The Interplay between the Upanishad and Catholic Theology

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1968

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George Allen & Unwin Ltd

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The present book is an expansion of lectures which I gave at St Stephen's College, in the University of Delhi, in December, 1964. A shortened version of these lectures was delivered at Bishop's College, Calcutta, towards Christmas of that year. The lectures were the Westcott Lectures for 1964 under the Teape Foundation. I am deeply grateful for the honour given to me in being elected to do this. I am also deeply grateful to a number of people for their hospitality and helpfulness. At the time when I went to Delhi, the Principal of St Stephen's College was recovering from a major illness, and was unable to come to the lectures. For this reason they were recorded, so that he could listen to them in his home. Thus he is the main cause of their publication, for a transcript of them was sent to me, and from this transcript I have derived the substance of the book. However, it should be made clear that I have considerably added to and revised what I said, so that those who were good enough to attend the lectures would probably find that the material is very different from what they heard. Nevertheless, everything that is written here is in essence an expression of the thoughts which I attempted to convey then. I am, then, grateful to Dr Sircar, the Principal: though I would have wished that it were not his illness which gave occasion to the present book. The then Acting Principal and Mrs Shankland kindly invited me to stay in their house during my period in Delhi, and I look back with pleasure to the excellence and goodness with which they looked after me. There were many others too on the staff of St Stephen's who welcomed me, and kept me busy with friendly disputation. I would like also to mention Professor N. V. Banerjee, retired from the Philosophy Department at Delhi University, who discussed many things with me at the time, and whose cheerful acumen made me see the inadequacy of so much that I said. In Calcutta, I was the guest of Canon Sambayya. He and his wife, together with the rest of the staff of Bishop's College, were most kind. Less so, the brother-in-law of one of the staff, whose bowling in the nets was far too good for me.

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Yogi, Devotee, Theology

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