GANDHI'S GITA AND POLITICS AS SUCH

Gita and Mental Sciences1

India is an ancient and a great cultural, spiritual and an anthropological laboratory. She has been the nursery of saints and sages, scientists and founders of world's major religions and promulgators of profound philosophy. Nevertheless, to be satisfied with the glory of the past is to turn into a fossil ; but to interpret the old from a new point of view is to revitalise the past and bring in...

Introduction : Disasters as Politics – Politics as Disasters

What is the relationship between politics and disasters and how does this relate to the recent boom in disaster studies? The introduction to this volume argues that the recent interest in disasters is not because there are more disasters, but because of two recent developments within the social sciences: first, a focus on rupture rather than on continuity and second, a focus on materiality. Dis...

Mind as Evolution and Evolution as Such

One of the purposes of consciousness is to acquire knowledge. The models of this task traditionally assume a division between the known and the knower, a division that leads into doubtful reasoning about some kind of (frequently disguised) homunculus. The current paper tries to avoid such fallacies by viewing the adaptation of the mind as an evolutionary process, a process distinct (but not ind...

Research on Bhagavad Gita

Health Dimensions of Gita*

The author discusses in this paper to what extent 'the Gita' the most authorative source book of Hindu doctorine and ethics has contributed to the cause of a healthy living of mankind.