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=============================================================== ========================================================== Wednesday, December 29, 2021. 6:00.AM. Resurgent Culture - Chapter-1.7. - Swami Krishnananda. Discourse 1: The Goal of Life-7. 7. Conclusion : =========================================================== A great Bharatiya  Philasafer once sat contemplating on the problem of human experience, on the methods of arriving at truth, and on the possibilities of confronting errors at every step in this hazardous attempt. Rishi thought: May be that I do not see clearly, nor think rightly. It may be that I am forced by some imp to think wrongly and to observe imperfectly and distortedly. It is likely that nothing that I see or know is certain or capable of being designated as an uncontradictable truth. Everything may be doubtful. I may doubt the existence of my body, of the world or even the validity of the very processes of my thought. There is only a sea of doubt, nothing

 ======================================================================================== #With China out of mind, US and Indian soldiers team up for rare exercise in rough Alaskan conditions© US Air Force/Alejandro Peña With China out of mind, US and Indian soldiers team up for rare exercise in rough Alaskan conditions ======================================================================================= 1.#Friday, December 03, 2021. 9:00.AM. 1.#With China out of mind, US and Indian soldiers team up for rare exercise in rough Alaskan conditions : Christopher Woody. : Media Report ===================================================================================== *In October, US and Indian soldiers trained in Alaska during the latest version of the Yudh Abhyas exercise. *This year's iteration was the 17th of the exercise but only the second time it has been in Alaska. ================================================================================== US and Indian soldiers have c

========================================================================= ========================================================================= Wednesday, November 10, 2021. 6:00.AM. Resurgent Culture - Chapter-1.6. - Swami Krishnananda. Chapter 1: The Goal of Life-6. 6. The Underlying Unity ======================================================================== In this connection it would be profitable for you if I recall to your memory an interesting system of philosophy expounded in recent times by the famous professor, Alfred North Whitehead, on the basis of the discoveries made by Einstein in his theory of relativity. It is the opinion of Whitehead, not a mere fantastic belief but a rational conviction, the things in the world do not exist as localised bodies or static substances in a three-dimensional space, but are really certain phases of force entering into one another and forming a marvellous completeness wherein everything is a cause and an effect at the same time from

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, September 05, 2021. 6:40.AM. Chapter 1: The Goal of Life-4. 4.The Changeless Consciousness.. (Continued)-3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further, that we have a memory of sleep shows that a kind of perception was going on even in sleep, for there can be no memory without a previous perception, and no perception can have a meaning unless it is attended with consciousness. If memory has a meaning, the conscious perception that ought necessarily to lie antecedent to it cannot be denied.  We had consciousness, and we existed as consciousness in deep sleep; but we knew it not. Some mysterious darkness was veiling us. And this veil is nothing but the inactive latency of the possibility of objective experience in terms of the phenomenal categories described above. The Vedanta, t

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 15, 2021. 10:30.AM. Chapter 1: The Goal of Life-4. 4.The Changeless Consciousness.. (Continued)-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 . The methods of philosophy are usually certain developments of the logical methods of thinking and rationalistic processes of thought. Our faculties of understanding, thinking, feeling and willing are, however, found to be subject to certain fixed categories, such as quantity, quality, relation and mode, or, to put it concisely, space, time and cause. On a careful examination it is seen that, even as the findings of science are not ultimately reliable due to their being influenced by the changing characteristics of the senses of perception and the instruments of observation, the philosophical method, as it is usually understood b

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, July 14, 2021. 7:49.AM. Chapter 1: The Goal of Life-3. 3.The Changeless Consciousness.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Well, let us agree that we are in a universe of energy, as the latest developments in modern physics would indicate.  But what is the nature of this energy?  What is it made of, and what do we mean by energy?  Is it a quantitative substance, an object with dimension, and has it any quality, without which we can know nothing at all?  You know, we usually say that something is seen because we observe a quality in it, a character which enables us to differentiate it from another. Has the cosmic energy of the scientist any such perceivable quality? If it has either a quantity or a quality it should be a material substance, and has to be known by something other than itself, viz., an illuminating intelligence. 2 Here it will n

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 15, 2021. 07:35.AM. Chapter 1: The Goal of Life-2. 2. Modern Science: Its Implication : Continued .... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Well, let us agree that we are in a universe of energy, as the latest developments in modern physics would indicate. But what is the nature of this energy? What is it made of, and what do we mean by energy? Is it a quantitative substance, an object with dimension, and has it any quality, without which we can know nothing at all? You know, we usually say that something is seen because we observe a quality in it, a character which enables us to differentiate it from another. Has the cosmic energy of the scientist any such perceivable quality? If it has either a quantity or a quality it should be a material substance, and has to be known by something other than itself, viz., an illuminating intelligence. 2.

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 16, 2021. 07:26.AM. Chapter 1: The Goal of Life-2. 2. Modern Science: Its Implication :  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extending this observation to the entire world of perception, we come to the conclusion that, if at all it should be possible for us to know any such thing as a world—its contents and diversities—we have to accept, by implication, that our consciousness should be at least as wide as what we know, and this consciousness cannot be subject to separation or isolation as the perceptible objects are. Here we come to the crux of philosophy, the pivot of true scientific thinking. Are we in a world of truth? And what is truth? A great philosopher-saint of ancient India, Swami Vidyaranya, has observed in his great work, the Panchadasi: Satyatvam Badharahityam-Truth is that which stands the test of the principle of non-contradicti

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 16, 2021. 07:26.AM. Chapter 1: The Goal of Life-1. *1. What Is Truth? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We say we live in a world, because we perceive and experience certain phenomena which impinge on our senses and make us feel that we are in an objective environment. This supposed environment in which we appear to be placed is felt by us to be a complex situation that influences not only our individual personalities but also other individuals whose existence we observe intuitionally, as it were. We are aware, by analysis, experiment and observation, that broadly speaking, we have three avenues of knowledge, two of which are in direct relation to our normal world-experience, and one is unknown to most of us. These channels of perception are sense, reason and intuition. Sense-perception reveals to us that we are in a world from which we are

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2021. 10:05.AM. Preface -2. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teachers of philosophy and religion have been persistently making the mistake of suddenly commencing to teach the outer forms rather than the essence of this knowledge. What the students require to be told in the beginning is not Plato, Kant or Sankara; Hinduism, Buddhism, or Christianity, but the rationality behind the structure of existence and life as a whole, a systematic envisagement of the actual facts of life in their completeness and their ultimateness, so that the real problem before us is faced both inwardly and outwardly, at a single grasp. It may be called, if we would so like it, the philosophy and psychology of religion, understood in its proper sense, and not in terms of the schools of thought in the history of philosophy or the forms of practice in the history

----------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, JANUARY 08, 2021. 07:43.AM. Preface -1. ----------------------------------------------- What man needs is not philosophy or religion in the academic or formalistic sense of the term, but ability to think rightly. The malady of the age is not absence of philosophy or even irreligion but wrong thinking and a vanity which passes for knowledge. Though it is difficult to define right thinking, it cannot be denied that it is the goal of the aspirations of everyone. It is not that anyone would deliberately wish to think wrongly, and wrong thinking, is that attitude of the mind, where the false is mistaken for the true. This is a deep-rooted prejudice which it is hard for most people to eradicate. Error has become so much a part of man's thinking that there seems to be no one in position to point it out. One cannot, at the same time, be a judge and also a party summoned for examination. It is necessary that some effort has to be put f