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 ================================================================ ================================================================ Tuesday, May 17, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter 2: The Structure of the Universe-5. =============================================================== The Samkhya doctrine gives us a clue to this relation between the two terms of relation, consciousness and matter. The evolutionary scheme of the Samkhya is very helpful to us in understanding this mystery. On one side there is a world, and on the other side there is the perceiver of the world. Both these seem to be running parallelly along two altogether different lines of approach; but these parallel lines seem to meet at a point. How can parallel lines meet? Geometry tells us that parallels never meet, but today science tells us that parallels can meet in infinity. This is something super-geometrical. Infinity is the meeting point of parallel lines. Purusha and prakriti meet at one point, which is the point o...

  ============================================================= ============================================================== Saturday, April 09, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter 2: The Structure of the Universe-4. ============================================================= Now, what is the process of inferring the existence of something prior to the manifestation of the five elements? It is the same principle of logic – philologistic deduction. We have philologistic logic: All men are mortal, Socrates was a man, and therefore Socrates was mortal. There are two kinds of philologistic deduction. One is proper and the other is improper. The proper philologistic deduction is that all men are mortal, Socrates is a man, and therefore Socrates is mortal. Quite agreeable. But an improper deduction is something like this: Queen Victoria is a woman, my mother is a woman, and therefore my mother is Queen Victoria. This is an improper deduction; it is not correct. Just because both are women, it...

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Monday, March 14, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter 2: The Structure of the Universe-3. =============================================================== Here is the beginning of what is known as the Copernican Revolution in philosophy. It is called the Copernican Revolution because it was a kind of change brought about which was equally as shocking as the revelation brought to the world by the scientist Copernicus. He proclaimed to the world that the Earth revolves round the Sun rather than the Sun revolves around the Earth. We thought that the Earth is the centre of creation and that the planets, including the Sun, are only satellites. Not so was the conclusion of Copernicus. We are not the centre of creation. The Earth is a satellite of the Sun and, therefore, the Sun is the centre rather than the Earth. Such a revolution is called the Copernican Revolution in ...

 ============================================================== ============================================================ Saturday, February 12, 2022. 06:00.  Chapter 2: The Structure of the Universe-2. =============================================================== What is the outcome of this analysis? We know that the five elements – or the world, for the matter of that – exists, not because of the status that the world itself occupies but because its status is recognised by some other principle which cannot be included within the category of objects. If no one is to know the world, there is no saying whether the world exists or does not exist. The existence of an object – let it be a large object like the world – is dependent on a consciousness of the object. When we are not aware of anything, we can say that such a thing does not exist. We have no proof for the existence of super-elemental principles, and therefore we go scot-free from laws that seem to be operating bey...

=============================================================== ============================================================ Wednesday, January 19, 2022. 06:00. AM. Chapter 2: The Structure of the Universe-1. =============================================================== Yesterday we were trying to distinguish between the formal relationships among things in terms of social ethics and personal etiquette on a utilitarian basis on one side and, on the other side, a scientific relationship that seems to be there among things. This analysis carries us to the larger question of the structure of the universe – how the world is functioning at all. What is the constitution of the universe? We have constitutions of our government – there is a president, a prime minister, a cabinet, and there is a system of state government under which we have various officials representing the Centre, functioning in a harmonious manner in consonance with the system established in the form of the central consti...

 ======================================================================== A priest attends to the day’s worship at a Chausath Yogini temple in the town of Hirapur. This is one of many such temples built in reverence to the 64 yoginis who are said to be manifestations of Shakti Herself. Shutterstock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, November 9, 2021. 11:00.AM. Unusual Temples & Shrines of India : October 1, 2021 : ANURADHA GOYAL : HINDUISM TODAY. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Special Feature : Every hindu temple is a home of its deities, where they live just like we live in our homes, following a set routine through the day and celebrating special occasions around the year. Temples themselves are a form of Deity, designed to make us feel their presence at both the gross and subtle l...

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Truly unforgettable!  Here’re some glimpses of the holy city Ayodhya, that has come to life with the festivities of deepotsav.🤩 A world record has also been set for the lighting of maximum number of 🪔🪔 amidst Vedic chants! 🙏 PMINDIA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, November 4, 2021. 6:00.AM. May you be the light for yourself and for the world.  Wish you all a very Happy Diwali.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Swami Chinmayananda and VHP The Vishwa Hindu Parishad was founded at Swami Chinmayananda’s ashram in 1962, with Swami as the founder-chairman. In that year the pope was visiting India; Catholics had vowed to convert 108 Hindus to Christianity i...