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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 V...

 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 understo...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 intelligenc...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-co...

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ...