Hindu Philosophy- A Rational Life

  looking to the present situation of science and technology, why philosophy is still important, when science is playing a perfect role in making lives better and dealing with natural laws, providing systems, and also investigating matter and body for the betterment of society, science is day by day advancing and discovering matching the pattern of human life and on other hand, philosophy that created confusion in human minds since hundreds of years and leading to rivalries in groups, cannot be found one and perfect, like of science, whose theory of gravity is similar at all places. Then why not philosophy can be, like science, with the nature of homogeneous, perfect and similar, after all, Just and Reason have to be alike at every time, like science, that prevailed similar and constantly same in different societies at different times. Science came as a rescuer for human beings and therefore the dependence of man on science is the remarkable example. Factually, present science ...

  Since very long, philosophers wandered to sift the flow of philosophical treatises and legate all in a tune of homologous to make sense of the subject ‘Philosophy’. Certainly, scientific approach left less space for philosophical thinking in the field of metaphysics and therefore chanting those old treaties with different intentions and contradicting their senses made no use of this very old system of thinking and reasoning to prevail further. What philosophy these days left is learning and repeating the contradiction made out by the opponents. In India philosophy means, the dualism of Samkhya, The atoms of Nayaya and the Maya of Shankar. Hindu Philosophy, in its development of thousands of years, witnessed the expansion of mankind and growth of different civilizations and also fought vigorously against dogmas and superstitions for the betterment of mankind, absolutely alone, in the absence of science and its approaches, it moved further and provided life of wisdom. There were ...

   Hindus never look dreaming in thought that the life of man is useless and to eradicate this suffering from their live is to exile from this world, They never think to keep the view of this world as unreal as because if this could be the base of their philosophies, the life had become useless and imaginative and so the suffering in life could never be dealt so widely and therefore life and suffering become synonyms. One of the most important optimistic aspects of Hindu philosophy was the conservation of environment. The concept that every animal and every plant have soul or consciousness and it should be preserved. The nonviolence thoughts of Jainism made such a great influence that Hindus learnt not to hurt even a tree or cut a branch of a tree. The non-violence against animals saved the ecology of this land for thousands of years and therefore there is no brutal rituals found practiced in Hindus that abolish the human right in original philosophy of Hindus.   Mytholog...

  For Hindus, metaphysics moved all around Consciousness, whether it was Samkhya or Vedanta, the soul is all independent and eternal substance. The soul is the center of every philosophy of Vedic structured metaphysics. Without consciousness, there is philosophical acumen or knowledge advanced in this enriched soil of thinking.   For Samkhya, purusa is a true Consciousness, independent and eternal. For Shanker, atman is Brahman and the only reality. Even for Nyaya and Vaishihka soul or consciousness is the independent element. Almost all orthodox schools talked about the consciousness though Charvaka do not accept the traditional definition of consciousness as of soul but Charvaka too maintain that consciousness is a byproduct of body and therefore consciousness exist   But the Consciousness or soul is not like the concept of what at present Hindu religion takes for granted.   Soul is not what turn to ghost or roaming uselessly and troubling people. Consciousness...

  Nayaya Philosophy took the mind or intellect totally different from the mind of Samkhayas. Samlhya concept of mind is eternal while Naya took it as non-eternal. For Samkya mind is a comic principle independent of self and meant to account for the existence of the light of reasoning in the whole universe.   Nayaya took it as subjective activity of thought in the acquisition of knowledge or in the lighting up and appreciating of the inert impressions received by the senses. This knowledge can come to an end and vanish by forgetfulness while an eternal essence like the mind of Samkhya, though it may ignored can never be destroyed.   Nayaya declared clearly that nor does knowledge belong to the manas which is but the instrument of knowledge, it arises from the conjunction of atman (soul) with manas and on the other side of mana with indriyas (senses).Manas is the true instrument and the wielder of an axe must be someone different from it.   But Lokayat, the India...

The greatest philosophy in India prevailed at the time of Buddhism and  Vasubandu goes into more detailed when he confronted the existence of pure conscience (Vignaptimatra) with inherent power. This potential attribute with its force perform threefold modification, first of all it manifest itself as Vipaka or alayavijana which is a store house of consciousness. Then this universal consciousness further manifests itself into two forms, it takes the form of an individual subject or ego (Klista Manovijinana) and secondly it manifests itself in the formal the various mental states and of the external objects (Visaya- Vijnapti) . In Indian schools, memory had not got the limelight as it was deserved and it was treated as a means of knowledge then it falls under experience which is either immediate or mediate. Every experience is supposed to leave an impression or modification of the mind which is capable of being revived. Another manifestation of memory is the act of remembering an...

The idea of subtle body by the seeing of gross body is very natural and it was also common in Greeks, Pythagoras claimed that subtle ethereal clothing for the soul apart from its clothing when united with the body. Vedanta took this thin and transparent ( Sukshma Sarira ) soul as a seminal or potential power and at the time of death leaves the corpus without being injured itself. The function of Yoga is subduing away of the self from all that is not self, in the highest object of this philosophy, by ascetic exercises delivering the self from the fetters of the body and the body senses.   Samkhya also hold that senses are different from the soul and in order to prove he argued, “ If each sense could perceive by itself, each sense would perceive its own object only, the eye color, the ear sound, the skin warmth and that what perceives all their impressions together at the same time and in the same object must be something different from the several senses which is the soul. ” T...

  Travelling in time, from one point of time to another is the most fascinating topic of science fiction from last one century. A vehicle called machine in which we can sit and ready for adventures in the past and able to see dinosaurs or travelling in future and to see over great-great grandchildren and lives on other exoplanets. It was H.G. Wells who gave a novel based on science fiction the ‘Time Machine’ in which Wells opened the idea of time travel in a machine and then there were movies and serials or comics on time travelling. And there were different paradoxes related to time travel and theories of warm hole in a fabric of time in which one can move from one place of time to another. And these theories also forced theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking to think on travelling backward and forward in time and then he reached on conclusion that time travel is not at all possible. Generally, the perspective of Albert Einstein that advanced the theory of relativity of time and sp...