Hindu Philosophy- A Rational Life

What we learn in the past, we behave and live accordingly and the present second wave of Coronavirus pandemic in India, forced us to evaluate what we had learned in our past and how we were living.   Basically we all start the process of programming from our childhood and we live our whole life according to what we are programmed.   A three year old boy when wanted to understand the world through his senses and introspection and wanted to understand the objective and subjective world and at that time every mother asked him to sleep or else the ghost will come. And we all programmed that there is a ghost. Ghost is not something but the first step of sowing fear in a child mind and the very disaster stride to crush confidence and there is ghost and fear for every child is the first learning to them.   Unfortunately, our society is not teaching the scientific phenomena and rationality to children but superstitions and religion, senseless, rubbish fundamentals of fallacie...

  I was amazed when one of my friend and former corporator of Ajmer Municipal Corporation told me that in a funeral of his relative, a covid death, dozens of relatives gathered despite they knew that the death was of Coronavirus. Moreover, I was shocked that they also performed a ritual of eating bread together to show that in the eyes of god now the whole community is together and with the mourning family. It is also shocking for me that in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan, people suffering from cold and fever were going to Tantrik (self proclaimed gods’ man) rather than to doctors. It was also awful that fake doctors are working in rural regions and treating covid patients while the country is struggling from the second wave of Covid very badly. The second wave of covid really hit hard and being as a journalist, I am working and reporting cases and deaths and funeral (which is really depressing) and reporting about oxygen to patients, about mismanagement of government and pan...

  Jainism maintained that the universe is made up of two things that are matter (ajiva) and conscious energy (jiva) and both are real but relative and both are plural in nature and infinite and therefore they advocated the concept of many as the reality. The school maintain that this universe is made of two things in which the matter or the material is real as well as the energy of consciousness which is jiva or soul is also real but both are separate entities and independent realities. For Jainism these two separate and independent entities of matter and conscious energy are infinite in the universe and both have nature of negative and positive and having uniqueness. Jainism maintained that it is not possible to know the reality of both matter and conscious energy as a whole but we do possess the capability to understand some of the qualities of these two things which are matter and consciousness energy. The metaphysics of Jainism is a realistic and relativistic pluralism. Thi...

Kshitiz Gaur  Kurukshetra— Arjuna Paused----- then declined to fight--- Is there glory in a victory that kills fathers, sons, teachers and students? One of the most able warriors in the land was paralysed by emotions. Lord Krishna then reminded him of the consequences to the state and of the society. Modern days, mangers face the same situation every day. A conflict between tough decisions and between the larger good or the theory of dos and don’ts when targets remained unsolved, the conflict of to be or not to be remain and effects the confidence of individual and create restlessness and the dilemma that Arjuna faced in the battle field of Kurukshetra. At present days, the Corporate are also playing fields are much like of Kurukshetra and they can be better called as Dharam Kshetra where the role of leadership is to re-establish dharma or rule and resolve the conflicts that arise between customers and suppliers, pollution and environment, manipulative politics in the org...

In Hindu philosophies there are four states   State of awake-Where the Atman is perceiving and acting by the mode of the Manas (mind) with the help of Indriyas (senses)   State of Dreaming- Where the Ataman ceased senses to act and help but the mind remains active. The Atman with mind moves in the body and sees dreams made out of the loose ends of former impression in Smartis (Memories) https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1550936638533357 State of deep and dreamless sleep- Where the Ataman completely separated from mind and senses but the vital essence of Atman that is consciousness remains in full activity. There is no role of mind and senses in this state but the consciousness as a vital part still remain in the body. The Atman become one like Brahman but returned unchanged at the time o awakening.   State of death- Where the Ataman with the sukshma Sarir (vital small body) escaped from the heart and body through a v...

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  It is taken for granted that Hindu philosophies were crude and hard and was tough for common mass to understand the meaning and concept. Certainly {philosophical acumen was tough and therefore these concepts were not spread in whole civilization. There were Gurukuls (schools) where Acharyas taught these ideas and concept to prepare better administrators, planners and managers, judges in the society. It is important to understand the difference between rishis (seers), Acharyas (professors), Sadhus (saints). Veragis (Nomadic) and Vanprasths (wanders). Seers were those who gave their lives for writing the Vedas, compiling and making Angas and philosophies and started schools on their metaphysical and epistemological concepts while professors were those who run Gurukul and prepare students according to their philosophical concepts. Saints were the people who preach humanity in society and nomadic were those who left the world and society and roam to find their own solutions while Van...