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Philosophy

Alok da, I was going through this work by the philosopher Descartes called Rules for the Direction of the Mind. So much of this work is about how to better purify the various human faculties of sense perception, memory, judgment, imagination, etc., so that one can observe minute facts of nature with precision and without prejudiced universal presuppositions and arrive at a true universal knowledge, which is arrived at only after mastery of minute particulars. 🇮🇳🔬📖🌄[…]

Certainly the Hindus knew the various means of purifying the mind and intelligence and, during the heydays of ancient India, the Vedic period and even

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Why does Sri Aurobindo appear to be so severe and repetitive in his critique of Shankara’s Mayavada  compared to other schools like Vishishtadvaita, and is this intensity necessary to dislodge a 2000-year-old dominance from the Indian psyche, or is there a more gentle path for Mayavadins to transition to the Integral vision? 🧘‍♂️✨📖🕉️

Yes. That is quite a pertinent observation. But first we must understand that his remarks are not about Shankara and Buddha as a person, –

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Why do philosophies like Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism, which often perceive Matter as unreal or the world as primarily suffering, fail to perceive the “reconciliation of Matter and Spirit” described in Sri Aurobindo’s The Life Divine, and how does the lack of a “burning aspiration” to transform earthly life limit their vision of the Cosmic Truth? 🌌📜🧘‍♂️✨

Obviously they missed, in fact from the accounts available it is unlikely that they truly experienced the cosmic consciousness especially because their problem was the

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