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Surendranath Dasgupta A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1

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Surendranath Dasgupta (Bengali: সুরেন্দ্রনাথ দাশগুপ্ত) (October 1887 – 18 December 1952) was a scholar of Sanskrit and philosophy. Dasgupta was born in Kushtia, Bengal (now in Bangladesh)in a Vaidya-Brahmin family. His ancestral home was in the village Goila inBarisal District. He studied in Ripon College Calcutta and graduated with honours in Sanskrit. Later, he received his Masters degree from Sanskrit College, Calcutta in 1908. He got a second Masters degree in Western Philosophy in 1910 from the University of Calcutta. [more]

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Surendranath Dasgupta A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 1

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The old civilisation of India was a concrete unity of many-sided developments in art, architecture, literature, religion, morals, and science so far as it was understood in those days. But the most important achievement of Indian thought was philosophy. It was regarded as the goal of all the highest practical and theoretical activities, and it indicated the point of unity amidst all the apparent diversities which the complex growth of culture over a vast area inhabited by different peoples produced. [more]

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Surendranath Dasgupta A History Of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 (Fiscle Part 13) Of 2

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The Buddhists Had Upset All Common Sense Convictions Of Substance And Attribute, Cause And Effect, And Permanence Of Things, On The Ground That All Collocations Are Momentary; Each Group Of Collocations Exhausts Itself In Giving Rise To Another Group And That To Another And So On. But If A Collocation Representing Milk Generates The Collocation Of Curd It Is Said To Be Due To A Joint Action Of The Elements Forming The Cause-Collocation And The _Modus Operandi_ Is Unintelligible; The Elements Composing The Cause-Collocation Cannot Separately Generate The Elements Composing The Effect-Collocation, For On Such A Supposition It Becomes Hard To Maintain The Doctrine Of Momentariness As The Individual And Separate Exercise Of Influence On The Part Of The Cause-Elements And Their Coordination And Manifestation As Effect Cannot But Take More Than One Moment. [more]

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Surendranath Dasgupta A History Of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 (Fiscle Part 13) Of 1

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The Achievements Of The Ancient Indians In The Field Of Philosophy Are But Very Imperfectly Known To The World At Large, And It Is Unfortunate That The Condition Is No Better Even In India. There Is A Small Body Of Hindu Scholars And Ascetics Living A Retired Life In Solitude, Who Are Well Acquainted With The Subject, But They Do Not Know English And Are Not Used To Modern Ways Of Thinking, And The Idea That They Ought To Write Books In Vernaculars In Order To Popularize The Subject Does Not Appeal To Them. Through The Activity Of Various Learned Bodies And Private Individuals Both In Europe And In India Large Numbers Of Philosophical Works In Sanskrit And Pâli Have Been Published, As Well As Translations Of A Few Of Them, But There Has Been As Yet Little Systematic Attempt On The Part Of Scholars To Study Them And Judge Their Value. There Are Hundreds Of Sanskrit Works On Most Of The Systems Of Indian Thought And Scarcely A Hundredth Part Of Them Has Been Translated. [more]

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BS Murthy Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help

Philosophy
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Bhagavad-Gita is the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue’ – so opined William von Humboldt, who wrote seven-hundred verses in its praise. Though it is a matter of consensus that Bhagvad-Gita in the present length of seven hundred slokas has many an interpolation to it, but no meaningful attempt has ever been made to delve into the nature and extent, not to speak of the effect of these on the Hindu society at large. The methodical codification of interpolations carried out here, for the first time ever, puts the true character of Gita in proper perspective. Identified here are hundred and ten slokas of deviant nature and or of partisan character, the source of so much misunderstanding about Bhagvad-Gita, the book extraordinary, in certain sections of the Hindu fold. In the long run, exposing and expunging these mischievous insertions is bound to bring in new readers from these quarters to this over two millennia old classic besides altering the misconceptions of the existing adherents. In this modern rendition, the beauty of the Sanskrit slokas is reflected in the rhythmic flow of the English verse of poetic proportions even as the attendant philosophy of the song that is Bhagvad-Gita is captured in contemporary idiom for easy comprehension. Contents Introduction Awe Unfounded All about Interpolations Chapters Arjuna’s Dilemma All about Life Theory of Action Practical Wisdom Art of Renunciation Practice of Restraint Know the Spirit Cycle of Creation The Sacred Secret Discern the Divine Nature of Omnipresence Doctrine of Faith Field and Farmer Proclivities to Know Art of Liberation Frailty of Thought Science of Devotion Thy Looking-glass [more]

Keywords: Bhagvad Gita, Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, Indian philosophy, Krishna, Asian philosophy, Body and soul, Sanskrit epics, Hindu epics, Indian epics, Hindu philosophy, Body mind and soul, Gita, Bhagawad Gita, Sanskrit Classics, Indian classics, Hindu classics, Religion and spirituality [more][Less]

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BS Murthy Inane Interpolations In Bhagvad-Gita

(An Invocation for their Revocation)

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The Manusmriti, the social doctrine of yore, and the Bhagvad-Gita, the spiritual tome in vogue that lay down the discriminatory dharma (duties) of the four social classes (castes) have been the bugbears of the Hindu backward classes. However, to their chagrin, of late, as the latter is being mindlessly promoted even though the former was constitutionally debunked, they began advocating that it too should be dumped in a dustbin. Ironically, the improbability of their progenitor Krishna, the architect of the Gita, relegating his own ilk to the social margins failed to dawn upon these that Gita supposedly slights, even to this day! Thus, their intellectuals, instead of seeking to reclaim their priceless heritage, albeit after ridding its interpolative garbage, tend to rubbish it a la throwing the baby with the bathwater, and needless to say they must ponder. Also, it is high time that the Gita-class stop laying store by the self-aggrandizing verses in this Vyāsa’s classic, evidently inserted by their progenitors that came to bedevil the Hindu spiritual integrity and social harmony. Likewise, the grumblers of the dalit desertions must see the need for setting the Hindu house in order to prevent the fractious poaching by the Church, if not to facilitate the ‘hoped for’ return of the prodigals. So also those who take pride that Hinduism is the only religion that reckons all faith as true, should be concerned about the ‘in vogue’ Gita that belittles some of their caste fellows. Besides, this work beckons the feminists to reckon the second of the two interpolations from it cited in the cover image that degrades them in unspeakable terms. This ‘overdue’ work, may lead the ‘denied’ Hindu castes as well as the favored folks for an objective approach to the in vogue Bhagvad-Gita which could dispel the misgivings of the former and the delusions of the latter, thereby bridging the Hindu emotional gulf with its abridged book that restores its original form. Whether or not one concurs with its propositions, this original work could be of interest to the students of logic and reasoning as well. [more]

Keywords: Bhagavad-Gita, Interpolations in the Gita, Indian philosophy, Religion and spirituality, Hindu philosophy, Hindu scriptures, Caste discrimination, Social reforms, Social sciences, Critical thinking, Logic and reasoning, Research and analysis, Analytical thinking

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BS Murthy Manu’s Shadow on Gita’s Path

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When I thought I am done with the study of interpolations in the Gita after my critique, Inane Interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for their Revocation) I was tempted to turn my attention to the seldom read but much maligned Manu Smriti*. While I found that that testament is Incongruent and its motivated castigation is nothing but flogging a dead horse riding a blind donkey (an eponymous essay is due on this aspect), nevertheless, I could discern Manu’s shadow on the Gita’s path that is sought to be placed here for a public view. [more]

Keywords: Bhagvad-Gita, Bhagavad-Gita, Gita, Manu Smriti, Laws of Manu, Manu's Laws, Hinduism, Hindu philosophy, Indian philosophy, Asian philosophy, Scriptures, Hindu scriptures, Indic studies, Indology, Religion and spirituality, Hindu epics, Social studies

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BS Murthy, Semitic Censure Of Sanatana Dharma, Or The Pot Calling The Kettle Black

Education
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The Hindu intellectual response to the malicious Semitic attack on their dharmic ethos was stymied for the caste has always been the Achilles heel of their social chore. Hence, it is imperative to probe the Hindu social ills and delve into the Church’s religious ill-wills so as to bring the lopsided discourse onto an even keel. It may be noted that even as narō nārayana (man is but God) is the integral maxim of sanatana dharma, the Christian credo suffers no qualms about the inhuman slavery as averred in the Bible (1 Peter 2.18) – “Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse” and such. Also, whereas Hinduism espouses the eclectic concept of ekam sadviprā bahudhā vadanti (what is right is One only, describe it wise variedly), the Church holds the narrow view that only faith in Jesus portends salvation and the choice against him results in eternal doom. That’s not all, while sanatana dharma postulates vasudhaiva kutumbakam (holds world all in one household) in the Christian scheme of things, all non-Semites are heathens; if anything Islam debunks all other faiths, Christianity included, and vilifies all non-Muslims, not exempting the Christians, as kafirs destined to eternally burn in the hell of a hell. [more]

Keywords: Hinduism, Christianity, Sociology, Political Sociology, Constitutional Law, Indian Philosophy, Social Sciences, Political Science, Religious Pluralism, Islamic Studies, Indian Politics, India, Evangelism, Religious Studies, Demographics, Indian History, Sanatana Dharma, Christian Studies, Religious Tolerance, Indian Democracy and Constitution [more][Less]

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BS Murthy On Bashing Manu Smriti, Or Flogging A Dead Horse Riding A Blind Ass

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None knows when Manu Smriti had its last sway, if at all, over the Indian polity but still the Hindu castes that it slighted lazily hold it against the Brahmins that it once exalted, and ominously, the evangelists cynically bash Hinduism with it to lure the former into their Semitic fold. However, this essay is not an exercise to endorse the extinct Smriti per se but an attempt to expose the perceptive vacuity and the intellectual dishonesty, as the case may be, of its debunkers. So, instead of bashing the Manu Smriti a la flogging the dead horse riding a blind ass, it pays the mankind to discard the redundant chaff to nourish itself on the pristine grain in Manu’s ancient granary. [more]

Keywords: Manu Smriti, Manu’s Laws, Laws of Manu, Manuwad, Sociology, Social studies, Social science, Political science, Political studies, India studies, Constitutional studies, Social discrimination, Racial discrimination, Religion and spirituality, Caste system, Indian philosophy, Hinduism, Caste oppression, Gender studies, Social psychology, Humanities, Cultural sociology, Political sociology [more][Less]

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Harish Damodaran SAIVA SIDDHANTA AND ADVAITA

The Problem of Bondage and Liberation

Philosophy
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Philosophy in India, through ages, enjoyed a very esteemed position as a master science and served as an inspiration for all other fields of study. Hence scholars used to call it as the mother of all subjects. A unique feature of all the different schools of Indian philosophy is that, irrespective of being orthodox or heterodox, they always struggle to answer the problem of the bondage and the liberation. Both the philosophies; Advaita and Saiva Siddhanta are no exceptions. Together they accept the existence of the bondage that keeps the individual self away from the realization of the absolute self and strive to find the most probable way of breaking down the bonds for gaining the ultimate freedom. The present study is a critical approach to compare the ways in which both the schools of Saiva Siddhanta and Advaita attempt to solve the vital problem of bondage and liberation. [more]

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