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Dialogue with the World (The Concept of Body according to Merleau-Ponty & Ramanuja) by Wilson Edattukaran
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GENERAL INTRODUCTION :- The history of human thought is man’s journey into the large and latent layers of his manifold experiences. Man in his thematizations enters into his lived experiences and expresses them in several creative ways by means of systems of thought, creations of art and aesthetics, myths, cults and culture. Man being the wonder of all wonders lived in his daily experiences. Philosophy beings when man starts becoming aware of himself as the wonder of wonders and the center of creation. Every philosophy has to be a systematic & disciplined discourse on man’s daily lived experience. If experience is the source of philosophy, awareness is the decisive door to it. Human thought is similar to the swinging of a pendulum of a clock. As the swinging is a sine qua non condition for the working of the clock, so too, the shift of emphasis philosophical thinking is necessary to keep philosophy and human thinking alive. Consequently, different dimensions of the same reality have been focused on differently from time to time and from culture to culture. Wonders are many indeed and their dimensions are deeply different. From time immemorial, philosophers pondered on either one or many of them and schools of thought, systems and theories have evolved. Starting from the cogito of Descartes to the ensouled body and the enfleshed consciousness of Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), we can find in the West a new and original shift to existential subjectivity, the central mystery for several phenomenologists and existentialists. Philosophers of Augustine: “Don’t go abroad, truth dwells inside man.”1 Thus the wonder of subjectivity exceeds all other wonders, not an abstract and Sterile subjectivity, but a subjectivity steeped in actions and saturated by experiences, constantly in an existential encounter with oneself, with other subjects and the world, the home of being and the horizon of horizons. It is an existential subjectivity that stands revealed in an incarnate consciousness and a perceiving body, a constitutive medium that bridges the dimensions and differences of being. Consequently, the human body becomes a central theme for discussion and research in several disciplines, especially in philosophy, psychlology and other human sciences. Our endeavour to analyse and understand the concept of the body in the philosophy of Maurice-Ponty and Ramanuja necessitates, religious and philosophical scenes which formed the background and inspiration and, perhaps, foundation of their respective approaches and to analyse the philosophical milieus in which their personal vision and particular philosophy evolved. Our attempt becomes all the more challenging when we realize the barriers that separate that separate these two thinkers. Ramanuja was a religious teacher of the Vaisnava community in South India who, as tradition claims. Lived a long life of 120 years in the 11th and 12th centuries, at a time when the Western philosophy was still waiting for the birth of Thomism. The first book of Merleau-Ponty, the French existential phenomenologist, was almost complete at the time of the 800th anniversary of the death of Ramanuja. While it is irrational to inquire into the awareness of Ramanuja regarding the 20th century French thinker, there is the possibility that Merleau-Ponty had at least a general idea of the Visistadvaita philosophy and its place in the Indian philosophical system.
Rs... 750/=EPIC UNDERTAKINGS (Edited by ROBERT P. GOLDMAN MUNEO TOKUNAGA)
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witnessed continued & growing interest in the massive & fascinating poems we know as the Sanaksit eoics. This interest has manifested itself in the continuing translations of both texes, a steady stream of publications & numerous scholarly meetings of Sanskrit epic scholars. A number of these scholars assembled in Helsinki to constitute the Epic Section of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in the summer of 2003. The present volume places before the Indological community the sixteen learned papers presented at the conference by the distinguished group of scholars who were in attendance. The topices & methodologies of the authors are as varied & diverse as the contents of the monumental poems themselves but each contribution sheds new light on some aspect of the genetic &/ or receptive history of these works, their relationship to each other & to other Indic texts, or the erpresentation & analysis of specific characteters & episodes in the poems.
600/=ESSENTIAL WISDOM from a SPIRITUAL MASTER BY SADHGURU Yogi, Mystic & Visionary
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Even at a time when there is great versatility in people’s understanding of the word spiritual, it is hard to fit Sadhguru into the category of a Spiritual Master in an established sense of the word. If you think he is someone who walks on water, materializes things out of thin air, reads people’s minds, looks into a crystal ball & tells people what they did and ought to do, you are in for a surprise. And if you think not, you are in for a bigger surprise! For those of us who have had the good fortune of being a witness to all the contradictions, paradoxes, compassion & Grace—sparks & thunders apart – from a million other things that he is, attempting to describe him is certainly not an enviable task. Yet, the possibilities & promises for the layman & the world, in this most blessed phenomenon of our time are so rich & plenty that it would indeed be criminal to not make an attempt, however clumsy. I first met Sadhguru sixteen years ago, when I had just finished my schooling & was in college. A particular teacher in my school had enthralled us to seek a spiritual master—actually the more sacred version of it — a Guru— and be initiated by him, like he himself was. My imagination, fired by books like The Autobiography of a Yogi & other similar works led me to yearn for a similar esoteric opportunity. For a couple of years, the picture of a sagely being with a long, flowing, grey beard sitting under a banyan tree & teleporting a handful of disciples of disciples into the other worlds was deeply imprinted in me. So, when I first met this man, clean-shaven & clad in blue jeans & T-shirt, speaking flawless English & riding a motorcycle, as Sadhguru was in those days, I did not in the least think that I had met the Guru. However, the forty minutes that I spent in his introductory talk temporarily distracted me from the sage under the tree & made me look forward to his teachings & practices with the hope that it would help my near-sightedness & my studies — my most pressing problems then. As years passed, & I got to spend a little more time with this person, unknown to me, bit by bit, little things in me began to align & orient themselves to seek the higher realms of knowing & living & to not settle for the mundane & the mediocre. Ever since then, in scarcely detectable ways, undeterred by my own undoings, Sadhguru’s Grace & unseen hands continue to transform my life, taking me beyond my limitations to a destination unknown & undreamt of.
250/=GAIN WISDOM [Maharishi PATANJALI way !] Through his 195 YOGA SUTRAS (S.V SUBRAMANYAM)
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1. What is yoga? The word Yoga is derived from the Sanskrit “yuj” meaning to bind, join, attach & yoke, to direct & concentrate one’s attention on, to use & apply. It also means union or communion. It is the true union of our will with the will of God. 2. It Yoga a means or an end? It is both. Yoga is the process of taking us back home to our un-obscured true nature. Hence it is a means. Yoga is a state of Union. Hence it is the end. 3. It Yoga a Science? Yoga is a science. It is not a vague, dreamy drifting or imagining topic. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end.It take up[ the laws of psychology,applicable for the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane,in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding conciousness acts exactaly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science. 4.Is Yoga a raligion?Is yoga Hinduism? No.Yoga has nothing to do our religion.It is a systematic method of understanding one’s true self. Yoga accepts that God as a special person can be used by the seeker in seeking liberation.Yoga is not Hinduism,as it is commonly known as.
GANESHA - THE GOD OF INDIA (By Sunil vaidanathan)
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Ganesha is the most-loved God of India. He is a friendly God ,who is much loved & venerated by the common man. Akin to the common man, he is a God with a sense of humour. He also has a sweet tooth & has a weakness for ''Modakas'' . He has chosen for his mount, the humble & ubiqi- tous rat. The common man has great faith in Gansha. Whenever he is in trouble, he visits his temple & prop-itiates, in the hope that, Gansha will relieve him of his distress irrespective of religion, visit his tem- ple before their examinations & pray to him to grant success. The book tells why Ganesha is so adored by his devotees you will be convinced after reading this book as to why he is known as the ''God of India''
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