Play of Consciousness
Who are we? Why are we here? Are we free? If yes, what is the source of our freedom? Science tells us we are machines, and looking from it our freedom is an illusion. In science there is no place for the spirit. We More...
The Idea of 22 Srutis
Introduction In the Indian tradition the seven notes of the saptaka are taken to be further subdivided into 22 srutis. The problem as to why this subdivision has 22 elements has concerned musicologists for a long More...
Indian binary numbers and the Katapayadi notation
Van Nooten has well summarized1 the description of binary numbers by Piṇgala Nāga in his Chandaḥśāstra2, here represented by CS. According to an old Indian tradition, Piṇgala was the younger brother of More...
Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”Bbhqaghf0GR3eKTNY7wybwC50tDymL5z”] Aryan and Dravidian It was Bishop Caldwell (1875) who suggested that the South Indian languages of Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu formed More...
Indic Language Families and Indo-European – 1
As the science of language, historical linguistics in the early 19th century saw itself as providing a framework for studying the history and relationships of languages in the same manner as biology describes the More...
Vena, Veda, Venus
Introduction The name Venus is from the Roman goddess of natural productivity and also of love and beauty. The Greeks called this planet Aphrodite and also Eosphoros or the ‘bringer of light’ when it appeared More...
Concepts of Space, Time, and Consciousness in Ancient India- II
[contextly_sidebar id=”2isZ1Toi2R3QndxENDSTvCgGqP8TcKit”] Selected Passages From Yoga-Vasistha (YV) The page numbers given at the end of each passage are from the Venkatesananda (1993) translation. YV More...
Concepts of Space, Time, and Consciousness in Ancient India- I
Introduction Ancient Indian ideas of physics, available to us through a variety of sources, are generally not known in the physics world. Indian astronomer/physicists, starting with a position that sought to unify More...