Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT This essay, the fourth and final part in a series on the extensive contribution of Kashmir to Indian culture, focuses on art, architecture and literature in Kashmir and its enormous influence over the arts in the rest of India and beyond. Architecture And Painting The uniqueness
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Source:- Subhash Kak / Swarajya magazine SNAPSHOT The poetic narrative of human characters with superhuman qualities executing superhuman tasks are found in the earliest Indian tradition. Indian aesthetics stresses self-transformation, and the heroic stories recounted in the epic songs are intended to inspire the listener to self-transcendence. This is the first in a four-part
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Source:- Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT Neither by embracing a false history or by rejecting it altogether can the Indian mind be cleansed of the encrustations placed on it by the colonialist Western narrative. The past must be confronted on its own terms and, once that is done, India turns out to
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT Besides their contribution to the sciences, Indians have been able to connect deeply with the ‘inner world’, or the spiritual realm. Many great scientists, like Schrodinger and Heisenberg, have taken inspiration from Indic ideas to develop sophisticated modern concepts. In the twenty-first century world, India’s unique
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT Between the classical and the quantum worlds lies metaphysics, the domain of philosophers and religious adepts for centuries. This domain has shrunk as science has investigated new fields. Some scientists believe that all of metaphysics would eventually yield to scientific logic. This is a first of
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT The mind may be viewed to be constituted by five basic components: manas, ahamkara, citta, buddhi and atman. The Vedic theory of consciousness probably suggests a process of evolution, wherein there is an urge to evolve into higher forms, which have a better grasp of
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya magazine SNAPSHOT Academic advances in a scientific understanding of consciousness will lead to a better appreciation of the Indian literature on the subject. One hopes that a comprehensive chronology of the various developments in the structural models of consciousness will be eventually produced. The Vedic notion of consciousness
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. Snapshot This is the first in a two-part series that presents a summary of the Vedic theory of consciousness within a framework of contemporary scientific concepts. Consciousness is described as the ultimate mystery in ancient Indian texts, and its study is lauded as the highest science.
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT This is the second part in a four-part series about the important contributions of Kashmir to Indian culture. It describes at length the significant influence of a profound book from Kashmir, Yoga Vasishtha, over Indian philosophical and scientific thought. Another book from Kashmir which has
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT This is the first essay in a four-part series about the important contributions of Kashmir to Indian culture. It throws light on the early history of the region and the expertise of the Kashmiris in the areas of grammar, music and dance. This is the
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