Hindu Philosophy- A Rational Life

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 rish...

  Universe in Hindu Philosophy: Singularity and Cosmology "There was neither existence and nor non-existence; There was neither space nor air;" Hindu philosophy had testing system to assess their doctrines and even their metaphysics and ethics were  tested well before pronouncing in the mass.  The confusion arose when we mixed philosophy with mythologies. Indian philosophies and Upnishads is a one part and then mythologies and Puranas is another part of Hindu concepts and interestingly both the parts are drive from Vedas. And it was a chance that mythologies and Purnanas prevailed over philosophy and Upnishads making Hindu thoughts purely a showcase of spiritualism. The first question which every Indian system of philosophy has settled is how we come to know a certain things. Three channels by which knowledge can reached, perception, inference and authorities. But the other part of Puranas and mythologies took authorities as the only source of knowledge. https://www.amazo...