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  2. For a detailed study of the differences between the two experiences ansing from a work of Art and a dream, the present writer's essay, Kavyajagattu, may be consulted.

  3. A.Bh.Vol.1, p.3. 340. R.G.,C.1-17,

  4. Here it is not meant that there is no place for beauty in the scheme of Advaita. What is suggested is that Beauty one comes across ina work of art is, according to Advaita,as unreal and transitory as Isvara whose nature has been explained before. This transitory value given to Isvara etc. alone, it seems, has been the cause for dissatisfaction among great scholars like Maxmuller who plainly remarks :- "It must be clear to every one who has once mastered the frame 312 work of the true Vedanta philosophy as I have tried to ex- plain it, that there is really but little room in it for pshychology or cosmology, nay, even for ethics." (Sıx sys- tems of Indian Philosophy, p., 170.)

  5. R.G.pp.8 - 9.

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  1. This view finds a vigorous protagonist in Prof.solomon E.Asch when he writes in his social Psycholoty :- "Traditional instinct-habit psycholgies have little of relevance to say about the specific properties of human onientation; they give the appearance of having solved the problem of social life when they have simply by-passed them. In par- ticular, they do not face seriously the problems of order in individual and social action when they describe men as a sum of instincts and habts. A psychology of drives and habits can hardly find a conceptional place for psychologi- 313 cal structures most characterstic of man-for the reality of a self, of knship relation, or a sense or values. It results in the description of an individual who is not capable of novelty,who is a genuinely social being but is only a more complicated form of pre-social, pre-human individual. It 1s a crude fallacy to assume that no changes occur in the social field other than the detailed modifications in the sequence and arrangement of elementary functions. We must keep open the view that many distinctive psychologi- cal operations take form only within a social field and that the changes they produce alter individuals at their centre. (pp.78-79.) For an elaborate criticism of the theory of Instincts L.L.Bernard's Book, Instincts, may be consulted. 347. R.G.pp.45 - 46.

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