Bharatham : Uthishtatha-Jagratha : (wef-05/11/2012. )

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

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

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 23,2020. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 4. Post-1-7. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Philosophers have stumbled upon this difficulty and have gone to the extent of finding out if there is any qualitative superiority in our reason, in our intellects, in our ratiocinations, beyond what the senses give us as a quantity of information. We have failed utterly. We have found nothing; we see nothing. But there is a peculiar feature in our reason, or rationality; and our question which is refusing to be ignored finally, whatever be the difficulty in answering it.  2. The process of human history is nothing but the insistence of this question to receive an answer and the failure of humanity to provide an answer. If humanity had provided an answer to this insistent question, the world would have vanished altogether by this time. But n...

---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 03,2020.06:04.AM. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 4. Post-1-6. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Our daily activities will show that there does not seem to be much relevance between the seeking of an answer to this question and the nature of our daily movements in life. We do not consciously do anything, it appears. We are driven by impulses. We are forced under certain circumstances to act in a particular manner; and if this is true, we cannot say that we have an aim before us. The aim is merely to be subjected to the mandate of that power which compels us to move in a particular direction. Well, this cannot be called an aim. This is slavery. 2. So we do not seem to be able to perceive any aim in our life by opening our eyes, or listening to any sound through our ears, or from any sensory operation. And intellectual...

----------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 01,2020.8:02.AM.  (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 4. Post-1-5.  ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Now, questions lead to further questions and we are not anywhere near the final answer, evidently. The incapacity of the resources of man to find an answer to the problems of life is the fear in us, fear in everybody; and what can be a greater fear than this? We have a great question before us, and we are unable to receive an answer. Not I, not you, not anyone in the world can give an answer to this question that the whole of the world has raised before itself, a large question of the nature of existence: Why should anything be what it is? Why should there be a tree, why should there be a mountain, why should there be a man, why should there be a river? Why should there be anything as it is? We cannot answer these questions unless we a...

=========================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, May 25, 2020. (Spoken at a Conference in Delhi on Sept. 20, 1980) Part-1 of 3. Post-1- 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. We were told by some of our speakers of the dread that is before us from the future world, the possibility of the utter annihilation of even the particles of sand. But who injects this fear into our bodies? The dread itself cannot be the answer to this question. The source of fear cannot be equated with the complexion of the sources of fear. We fear death because we are immortal. That is the final answer. It is the great proof of the immortality of what we essentially are. The fear of death demonstrates the immortality of the soul of things. Otherwise, we will not fear death. If death is our nature we cannot be afraid of death, because nature cannot be afraid of its own...