Hindu Philosophy- A Rational Life

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. ” The q

  “ 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

  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 space

  Is Death an ultimate liberation or it is a part of a cycle of birth and death? What after death? The soul survives or it decamped with body? What after mass deaths such like in pandemic, accident or  Genocide ? Death is the most mysterious topic from the evolution of human beings. Death remained mystery in Pyramids of Egypt and also it remains mystery in the stories of children speaking different languages and revealing their past lives.   To follow the mystery of death, here are coming up five different research articles and documentaries based on 1)    Death- philosophies and religions 2)    Death- science and research 3)    Death- mysteries, stories and unanswered questions 4)    Death- the final call 5)    Death- dream, reality, something, anything or nothing Coming soon- Please follow the blog Hindu Philosophy a rational Life

    It is real as well as unreal and -          It is universal as well as particular. -          It is permanent as well as momentary. -          It is one as well as many. Reality has infinite aspects which are all relative and Reality has infinite aspects which are all relative and we can know only some of these aspects all our judgements Syadvada or Sapta Bhangi Naya is the theory of relativity of knowledge. It means dialectic of the seven steps or the theory of seven fold judgement. The word Syad, literally means probable, perhaps may be and sayadvada is sometimes translated as the theory of probability or the doctrine of may be. But it is not in the literal sense of probability that the word syad is used here. Probability, suggests scepticism and Jainism is not scepticism sometimes the word syad is translated as somehow but this too smacks of agnosticism and Jainism is not agnosticism. The word syad is used here in the sense of the relative and the correct translation of syadvad