Vedantham : ( 07/11/2012. )

================================================================ Tuesday, 06  Feb 2024.  05:30. Article Philosophy Philosophical Deliberations: ================================================================ The consideration of the nature of the Supreme Absolute is known as Ontology. Contemplation on the nature of the Creative God is known as Theology. The study of the nature of the world is Astronomy, Geology, Geography and History. The study of the individual is Psychology, including Psychoanalysis. The study of the relationship between God and the world is Cosmology. A probe into the relationship between the world and the individual is Epistemology. The study of the relationship between individual and God is Religion. The study of the relationship between one individual and another individual is Sociology, which includes Economics, Ethics and Politics. Meditation is just Total Thinking. Now, what does this mean? Generally when a person commences meditation, there is the i...

============================================================= Tuesday, 09  Jan 2024.  05:30. Article Philosophy On Reason and Higher Life -3. ================================================================ We do not 'give' merely because another man's need is identical with his lack of ability. This is not the reason behind giving. We give because thereby we evolve, and there is the end of it. In this world there is always someone who has a larger ability and some other who has a lesser one. There is no point in mentioning it in the interpretation of the psychology of giving. In the performance of duty the result is not the motive. The motive is the psychological process that is going on in the act of giving. What you think and feel is important. The end beyond it is not the consideration. Our philosophy of Karma Yoga, which is the philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, is one of emphasis on the essential value of active duty and not the passive existence of its remote end. It w...

================================================================ Wednesday, 06  Dec 2023  05:30. Article Philosophy On Reason and Higher Life -2. ================================================================ On Reason and Higher Life -2. Whether it is moral to accept something for nothing is a digression from the point at issue, for unselfish service and accepting something for nothing are two different standpoints. Do you think hat people accept money merely because they do not want the other to receive something for nothing? Is it the consideration of the morality of the others that makes us accept money from them? Have you seen one individual in this world who thinks like this? You know, legal quibbles do not always touch the core of truth. Take the matter as it is, on its face. Do we accept money from others so that others may be benefited by the morality thereof? Definitely not. We want the money for ourselves. And the morality in regard to the other is irrelevant to t...