Imagination is the greatest gift and the worst curse on mankind. It can take one to the heights of creativity or to the depths of delusion
क्रमशः कणशः क्षणशश्चैव विध्यते कार्य सिध्धिः
"Success is achieved by doing things - step by step, bit by bit and overtime"
Welcome to the userpage of Sunil Vasisht.
I am a male, Indian-American, computer designer, philosopher and a believer in Hinduism.
Off late, i have been greatly influenced by Dr. S.N.Balagangadhara's book Heathen in his Blindness. I believe that we are living in an age defined almost singularly by Western ideas and viewpoints. Those viewpoints, even though they may appear secular, are still defined by and based on assumptions of christian theology, in most cases not universal at all.
I am giving Lectures on Upanishad, Gita and the Brhmasutras in Houston. The audio recording is posted here -
Example - Look at any philosophical article such as Causality, problem of evil etc., the ideas are discussed only from a western christian perspective (as if that is the universal) even though these ideas are not even entertained as a possibility in Eastern philosophy. A truely universal view takes into account all the different variants on the subject.
Causality is defined in samkhya and Nyaya schools of Hindu philosophy and taken to the zenith by the genius buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna much earler (in the case of samkhya and Nyaya) and much better (in the case of Nagarjuna) than any of the Greeks and their medival western followers have.
The problem is two-fold -
I am in the process of studying the effects on individual psychologies when bombarded with alien terminology -
Regards,
SV
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Imagination is the greatest gift and the worst curse on mankind. It can take one to the heights of creativity or to the depths of delusion
क्रमशः कणशः क्षणशश्चैव विध्यते कार्य सिध्धिः
"Success is achieved by doing things - step by step, bit by bit and overtime"
Welcome to the userpage of Sunil Vasisht.
I am a male, Indian-American, computer designer, philosopher and a believer in Hinduism.
Off late, i have been greatly influenced by Dr. S.N.Balagangadhara's book Heathen in his Blindness. I believe that we are living in an age defined almost singularly by Western ideas and viewpoints. Those viewpoints, even though they may appear secular, are still defined by and based on assumptions of christian theology, in most cases not universal at all.
I am giving Lectures on Upanishad, Gita and the Brhmasutras in Houston. The audio recording is posted here -
Example - Look at any philosophical article such as Causality, problem of evil etc., the ideas are discussed only from a western christian perspective (as if that is the universal) even though these ideas are not even entertained as a possibility in Eastern philosophy. A truely universal view takes into account all the different variants on the subject.
Causality is defined in samkhya and Nyaya schools of Hindu philosophy and taken to the zenith by the genius buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna much earler (in the case of samkhya and Nyaya) and much better (in the case of Nagarjuna) than any of the Greeks and their medival western followers have.
The problem is two-fold -
I am in the process of studying the effects on individual psychologies when bombarded with alien terminology -
Regards,
SV
![]() | This user comes from India. |
NRI | This
Indian Wikipedian is an NRI. |
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This user is a Hindu |