Philosophy

The 10 practices of patience recommended by Shandilya 5834

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• Apr 05, 2020

The Upanishads are a set of Indian religious texts written almost 3,000 years ago. They were written so long ago that Hinduism wasn’t even really a thing. Just a bunch of idealistic truth seekers writing stuff down on parchment paper.

The Shandilya Upanishad is considered a minor text, and its focus is yoga. In this context, “yoga” doesn’t mean shavasana while wearing Lululemon, but rather the yoga philosophy of action, of doing, of engaging with the world

Within the Shandilya Upanishad is a list of 10 forebearances. You can think of them as 10 practices

Biography of Kapila Rishi 7924

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• Apr 05, 2020

At the outset it must be admitted that the composition of a historical biography of Rishi Kapila is, in our age, a near impossibility. As with many other ancient sages, available records are scant and unverifiable. What we can say is that there can be no doubt that such an individual as the founder of the Sankhya philosophy did live at some exceedingly remote age, did teach a specific doctrine, and did leave traces of both his grandure as a rishi and the grandure of his knowledge. We will therefore attempt a brief survey of these traces with the aim of suggesting an idea or two as to the na

Sankhya Philosophy and Bankim Chandra 7835

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• Mar 12, 2020

Col Pradeep Kumar Gautam

Introduction

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya (hereafter, Bankim, 1838-1894) was a great Bengali novelist Sanskritist, philosopher, scholar of natural, physical and social science, humanist, a product of Bengal renaissance, a patriot and a nationalist.  A civil servant in Bengal during the British colonial period, Bankim was a “synthetizing genius, ascribing equal importance to both oriental and occidental learning which included philosophy, science, history, social and political science of the West too. He wante

As You Show So Shall You Reap 7063

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• Mar 12, 2020

Justice RF Nariman

The fourth and fifth centuries BC are renowned for having produced six philosophers of the highest rank – two were from Greece, two from this country and two from China. Out of the six, four expounded upon reincarnation. The two Chinese gentleman did not. Now first, the Greeks. Pythagoras to me as a school student was taught only because of his theorem and if I remember right, the theorem said that for a 90-degree angle in geometry, if you tote up its square, would be the equivalent to the square of the hypotenuse, which is the long side. I had not the least i