It is the intimate relation between the truth of philosophy and the daily life of people that makes religion always alive and real. ( Pg 5 Introduction)
The heretic, the sceptic, the unbeliever, the rationalist, the freethinker, the materialist, and the hedonist all flourish in the soil of India.
Everything useful to life or interesting to mind becomes an object of inquiry or criticism.
"Atmanam viddhi" ( know the self) : sums up the law and the prophets.
The mind of man has the three aspects of the sub-conscious, the conscious and the super conscious. The abnormal psychic phenonmenon, like exstacy, genius, inspiration, madness are the workings of the super-conscious mind. The Yoga system deals specifically with these experiences.
Aiteraya Brahmana, certainly not less than 2000 years before the birth of Copernicus: The sun never sets or rises. When people think to themselves the sun is setting, he only changes about after reaching the end of the day and makes night below and day to what is on the other side. Then when people think he rises in the morning, he only shifts himself about after reaching the end of night and makes day below and night to what is on the other side. In fact, he never does set at all.
Bhaskara's work of Algebra- Colebrooke's translation
Sanksrit Literature- Max Mueller
The speculative mind is more synthetic, while the scientific mind is more analytic, if such distinction be permitted. The former tends to create cosmic philosophies which embrace in one comprehensive vision the origin of all things, the history of ages, and the dissolution and decay of the world. The latter is inclined to linger over the dull particulars of the world and miss the sense of oneness and wholeness.
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