the upaniṣads, as one of the trilogy of principal vedāntic texts, the oldest and the most fundamental of them, have exposed a more or less detailed discussion on dreaming, taking it whether as the factual object of their discourse or as a symbol. however, there has been a debate between different schools of vedāntic philosophy about oneirology, science of dreams and their interpretation, discus...

The author would like to thank Professor Gustavo Caetano-Anollés from Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois for his interest in his work. We may sometimes observe that there is a noticeable difference between the anecdote people narrate about the implications of a scientific paper and the real conclusion of the paper. Prof. Gustavo Caetano-Anollés's response(1) is an ideal example...

In the past, philosophers, scientists, and even the general opinion, had no problem in accepting the existence of consciousness in the same way as the existence of the physical world. After the advent of Newtonian mechanics, science embraced a complete materialistic conception about reality. Scientists started proposing hypotheses like abiogenesis (origin of first life from accumulation of atom...

Abstract Līlā , as a concept and term, has long complex history in Sanskritic Hinduism, yet, irrespective of context, it routinely been translated by words signifying “play,” “sport,” “game” English other languages. Focusing mainly on the term’s philosophical theological connotations this article challenges these facile often misleading renderings. It analyzes semantic functions nuances decepti...

Abstract This article is an exploration of the dialectic this-worldly activism and practice self-effacement in Swami Vivekananda’s discourses. He often exhorts his audiences to cultivate vigorous strength live courageously world on basis their spiritual conviction that they are rooted true self ( ātman ) beyond all spatiotemporal limitations. The boundless , be realized by effacing egocentric s...