Hindu Philosophy- A Rational Life

   They believe only in the power of nature and liberation is to overpower the rules of nature. They do not feel cold even in snowfall or hunger even after keeping fasts for long-long months. This class is fascinated by the nature of Lord Shiva who is known as a destroyer of the world in the system of Hindu religion. But scholars point out that this sect is not associated with any Hindu philosophy,   “ Tantrism is neither Buddhist nor Hindu in origin. It seems to be a religious undercurrent originally independent of any abstruse metaphysical speculation, flowing on from an obscure point of time in the religious history of India, ” Dasgupta in Obscure religious cult page 27.   He further added, “ Side by side with the commonly known theological speculations and religious practices, there has been flowing in India asimportant undercurrent of esoteric yogic practices from a pretty old time. These esoteric practices, when associated with the theological speculations of the Saivas and the S

  “It is the inner voice that guide me for my action,” said a 7-year-old girl Sara to her friend softly but confidently. She looks all around and continued, “My mother said that we all have good and bad voices inside us and within us and therefore I daily offer prayer that my good voice should speak loud.” This is not the new thing to talk and not even children discuss such things but even grown-up talk about such moral and evil design inside us. The story of good and bad voices is a story of generations and it went like this even for generations. Whenever there is a debate on morality, the story of good and bad voices emerged in one or in other way. The theory of good and bad voices, say, that every human I shaving two powers within and these two powers are good and bad and these powers always and mostly on every issue suggest or guide to do things accordingly, and, we are the judge who decide which power is better. It is we, who decide to hear the voices of good one or bad one. I

  About 2 thousand and 5 hundred years ago, Gautam Buddha discovered the Concept of suffering, cause of suffering and the golden rule to cease the suffering. For Buddhist, suffering is manifests within the conscious. Gautam Buddha after dwelling so many years found the concept of suffering in society and developed the methods to cease that suffering in lifetime. But still, after 2 thousand and 5 hundred years, the suffering prevails and people are suffering. They are not suffering but have reason or cause for suffering and they do not know how to cease this suffering. Mind it, suffering is different from pain or anguish. Present, theories suggest that suffering is the part of life and without suffering people have no life left. Suffering is there because people want to suffer. They want suffering to understand the existence of their own in their own sphere. Suffering therefore prevails as much true as the life prevails on the earth. Hindu philosophy, emphasized mostly on the conc

  The Vaisesika philosophy of Hindus, also accept the reality of non-existence (Abhava) and is included into a group of categories. During day time when we look towards the sky and found light of the sun and sun and blue sky but while looking to the light and blue sky, we feel that there is absence of stars and moon is the category of non-existence. Vaisesika accepted 7 categories in which non-existence is also a category. Vaisesika school of thought described seven categories- substance (dravya) quality (guna), action (karma), generality (samanya), particular (vishesh) and inherence (samavaya) and also non-existence (abhava).   As per the Vaisesika Sutra non-existence is of two kinds- Absence of something in something else (sarh sargabhava) They are of three kinds (1) antecedent non existence (pragabhava) is the non-existence of a thing before it is produced. For example, when we say that on this particular land, I will build a house with bricks. In this the house is non-existen

  For Hindu Nayaya, perception is the definite and true knowledge. Knowledge because of stimulation of sense organs perceiving objects directly is definitely a cognition. Nyaya Sutra defined perception as a definite cognition which is produced by sense object contact and it is therefore true or unerring. For example, seeing a cow with four legs, two horns, tail and same shape give us knowledge that cow is coming from opposite side. Similarly, a table in front of me and a fan on the roof hanging over me is the plane definition of perception. Now Nayayaikas went deep in describing the concept of perception, they said that there are classified into two types in which first is ordinary (laukika) and another is extraordinary (alaukika). The ordinary perception is a simple way in which usual way sense comes into contact with the objects presented but in extraordinary perception in which an object as such is not ordinarily present to senses but is conveyed to sense through perception. Tha

  “As men learned more about the world, they found themselves everless capable of expressing to their educated fellowman what it was that they have learned. The gap between life and knowledge grew wider and wider. Those who governed could not understand those who thought and those who wanted to know could not understand them, those who knew” Will Durant in the preface of the story of philosophy. But this could not be the case of Hindu thinkers, they have the strongest forward view of life. Scholars never had the hesitation and complexity to found any of it in Hindu thought. Hindu philosophy had a problem in front of them and they pondered on this problem to solve it by their own means. The end is generalized, to ride of a suffering of life. They advocate the life and explain the way of living. They dedicated to the human psychology and they worked to encourage the prefect society. It drawn, that the philosophers had started with the life, full of misery and charged that life at th

It is great to be proud of your culture and heritage but it is greater to know your culture and heritage. The Hindus, in last some decades are feeling great related to their culture and heritage but they are not feeling greater by knowing their culture and heritage. In many such programs, I participated, in a hope that I will able to learn something which I do not know about Hindu culture and heritage. I usually love rationality and impressed by the rationality of Hindu philosophies. And believe me, there is no place of superstition or blindness in Hindu ancient literature. But my participation went in vein as I frustrated that what people are feeling great about their culture or heritage is all in vein because they are not talking about Hindus but about some mixed alien culture. They are confused and making others confused. The most important topic which generally common Hindus do not know but talk lot about is, is the topic of our ‘rishis and munis.’  I asked them who were rishis a

  “ Philosophy is what, which served the human kind, is to be served and spread, but if she is not what I believe then ruin it into dust ” Socrates   Philosophical though for Hindu soil is not a new thing to juggle with, we can even say that it was Hindu where we could have traces of philosophical atmosphere – to think and to touch every perspective of life. Even at present, the world knows that the Hindu spiritual treasure, a land of yogis with a very rich cultivation of spiritual philosophy. But after so much, the land of Hindus nave no advancements, no discoveries, no inventions and not even we have any country wide reform to prove the worth for the spiritual treasurer. In a easy way, Hindu race have no new thing to advance and we only have a great satisfaction of our glorious past and no additional feather to advance , “ It result because we had neglected the materialistic aspect of Indian though and therefore we took only the existing word as unreal, ” said DP Chatopadyay i

  We are our own enemy and therefore we regularly fight within our self since we are born and we fight with our self till we will die. Fighting inside with our own thoughts is a continuous process. Fighting, fighting and fighting, without knowing the reality and fighting only on assumptions, assertions, calculations which we feel fit and profitable and fighting and hurting our self regularly. There is not a single minute when we do not fight with our self and within our self.   Sorrow, anger, frustration, expectation, jealously, love, hate and such other feeling comes from our own world. God does not send these feelings in our hearts. He does not want you to jealous with your neighbor. He never wants you to keep hopes of award for helping someone. We all have our own world inside our self. We, in our inside, in our heart and in our mind forms different characters of our relatives, our friends, of our enemies and of unknowns and therefore we our self, own and own, assume what they had

  An action without desiring result, whatever you do, you will have no single feeling of un-success, neither feeling of revenge nor you have any expectations from the work or from yourself. This will help you to remain calm, the action which performed with the desire of result leads you in pressure and therefore before performing the act you have pre-deposit that the result will be according to the act, and fear of failing to get the desired result, that leads you to frustration. The substance like desire, frustration, expectations, sorrow, and pity all affects the body and the blood pressure changes with such feelings that affect not only our psychology but also our body. See a businessman in metro city, he invest money in business expecting the result that the money will multiply. He creates hope and expectation with this action or karma of investment and these hopes and expectations increased his blood pressure as he remains thinking about the result every time. And if suppose the

  “ To a Hindu the idea that the souls of men migrated after death into new bodies of living beings, o f animals, nay, even of plants, is so well self evident that it was hardly ever question. We never meet with any attempt of proving or disproving it among the prominent writers of ancient and modern times ” found German Scholar Seelen Wanderung.   “ Then, man was born with the power of thought, the knowledge of good and evil, and the cruel thirst for worship. And man saw that all is passing in this mad, monstrous world that all is struggling to snatch, at any cost, a few briefed moments of life before death’s inexorable decree ” Dr. Faustus, “ The self is hidden in all beings and does not shine forth, but it is seen by subtle seers through their sharp and subtle intellect. A wise man should keep them within self which is knowledge. He should keep knowledge within the self which is great and he should keep this greatness within the self which is the quiet. Rise, awake! Having obt

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 fallacies. The program