Advitiya Vishnu Vaada-III: Jiva is Vishnu’s reflection
[contextly_sidebar id=”WwtZyCJNmiQgBcDWPpP8vDONy0rOG86h”] Is jiva a creation of Vishnu? Are they different from Vishnu? While they appear different, are they equal to one another? Do the differences More...
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...
Advitiya Vishnu Vaada- II: Vishnu is Brahman
[contextly_sidebar id=”0C3fZrMDPBNJ9ydSH0aa6q8ApUEdK0q7″] The main difference between Advaita and Dvaita seems to be around just three Questions: Is Vishnu a guna pariPurna God with form or an abstract More...
Advitiya Vishnu Vaada- I: How Advaita & Dvaita come together
Ever since the advent of Shrimad Ananda Theertha (better known as Madhvacharya) in the Indian philosophical firmament in 13th century, a great polemical war has been raging between Idealists (Advaitins) and Pragmatists More...
Why is there a fear of Yoga?
This Tweet set me wondering. I did some research. Sure, there are many varieties of Yoga out there. Hot Yoga students do Yoga in hot humid conditions. If you don’t care for that, there’s Beer Yoga which is done More...
John R Searle’s The Mystery of Consciousness: A Summary with some Indian Perspectives
The Mystery of Consciousness by John Searle is available for purchase in Amazon. ‘Consciousness’ was in the ambit of philosophy and not good science earlier. As a mark of changing times, mainstream scientists 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...
What will the World Think of India?
The panel discussions in the English news channels in India are amazing. It keeps amazing me how panelists manage to reply at length to a straight forward question without giving an answer. Usually, the anchor shifts More...