What is it that strikes us especially about this substitution of the
divine-human for the human-natural personality? Is it not the loss of
individualism? (Individualism, pray observe, not individuality.) There
are certain sayings of Jesus which have probably offended many in their
hearts, though they may not have dared to acknowledge such a feeling to
themselves: "Woman, what have I to do with thee?" and those other
disclaimers of special ties and relationships which mar the perfect
sympathy of our reverence. There is something awful and
incomprehensible to us in this repudiation of individualism, even in its
most amiable relations. But it is in the Aryan philosophies that we see
this negation of all that we associate with individual life most
emphatically and explicitly insisted on. It is, indeed, the
impossibility of otherwise than thus negatively characterizing the soul
that has attained Moksha (deliverance from bonds) which has caused the
Hindu consummation to be regarded as the loss of individuality and
conscious existence.
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