"Insentient" Quotes from Famous Books
... who died in 1137. Ramanuja's greatest works are his commentaries on the Brahma-sutra and Bhagavad-gita. In them he expounds with great ability the principles of his school, namely, that God, sentient beings or souls, and insentient matter form three essentially distinct classes of being; that God, who is the same as Brahma, Vishnu, Narayana, or Krishna, is omnipotent, omnipresent, and possessed of all good qualities; that matter forms the body of souls, and souls form the body of God; that the soul attains salvation as ... — Hindu Gods And Heroes - Studies in the History of the Religion of India • Lionel D. Barnett
... lying like an insentient log on his arm, Taurus Antinor fell up at last against the door of the house; his foot had ... — "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy |