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Excerpt from Amritabindu and Kaivalya-Upanishads: With Commentaries; Translated Into English The mind has been a great bugbear to all philosophers. In seeking to find out what things are in themselves as distinguished from what they appear to be, the ontologist, like any other enquirer, must ultimately resort to the mind for data on which to base his specula tions. But all knowledge acquired through the mind comes invested with the limitations under which it works. Everything that is known is tinged with the colour of the mind perceiving it. The metaphysician, therefore, who suspects that things are not what they appear to be, concludes that things in them selves, - the noumena underlying the pheno mena, - are inconceivable and unknowable, though he is instinctively led to believe in them. As opposed to him there is a metaphy sician of another school, who holds that what is known or conceivable can alone be said to exist, and that therefore whatever is unknown and unknowable and even inconceivable can never be said or thought to exist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.