Hindu Philosophy- A Rational Life

  The major problem with the present Hindu mass is that their present language is different to what was preached and spoken in the past. There were large number of languages and dialectics, they changed with the time and now it is hard to understand those meanings without a great research in etymology. There is not a single real literature that stated the Hindu philosophy for present common mass. There are actually thousands of translations of ancient literature of Hindu race and mostly these translations were made by religious people and not by philosophers. At present, the aim is to establish god by the ancient Hindu literature and not to advance reasonable society. These story tellers took the responsibility to spread the meaning of these translated literatures to common mass and came out with their own meanings. They know in reality that if they talk about reasoning and logic and common sense as the part of Hindu philosophy, people will not accept them as wise. The base of ...

  Reasoning is to understand, cause is explanation What is difference between reason and cause? Looking to a lightening in dark sky and in heavy clouds- ‘B’ said that lightning is caused because god is angry. ‘B’ added that whenever god is angry (cause) thunder and lightning started (effect). But ‘C’ on other hand said that to understand the phenomena of lightning it is important to understand the essential requirement of clouds and rattling of clouds. The reason for lightning is there is some charge electric in clouds. The difference between ‘B’ and ‘C’ is not only the process of thinking but also the way they came out. Mostly we take both reason and cause as synonyms and that make great fallacy of judgement. These two words ‘reason’ and ‘cause’ is treated in Hindu philosophy as different but mistakenly taken as same and therefore collapsing the meaningful treatise of Indian Philosophy. Reason is generally taken as thinking, understanding and logically reaching a con...