Sri Aurobindo gives history a spiritual twist

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Sri Aurobindo's Theory of Spiritual Evolution

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Scientists cannot produce even a grain of rice

[Sadhu Sanga] New Book" Idols of the Mind vs True Reality, by Bhakti Madhava Puri, Ph.D.

Idols of the Mind vs True Reality, by Bhakti Madhava Puri, Ph.D.

"One must therefore go back 300 years and reflect on how one could have proceeded differently at that time, and how the whole subsequent development would then be modified." - Schroedinger

The theme of the new book, "Idols of the Mind vs True Reality" by Bhakti Madhava Puri, Ph.D. is concerned with the clear exposition of the pivotal conceptions and misconceptions of Galileo's and others' ideas that produced the subsequent development of what would become modern mathematized science.

The confusions and almost complete ignorance that exist today regarding something so fundamental as consciousness is immediately cleared up when the obvious errors are seen in the ad hoc presumptions of the original founders of modern science who were blindsided by the metaphysical ontologies that held sway during their lives, but to which we no longer adhere, thanks to the development of philosophy beyond that period. We trace this progress out in a concise way in the book.

The modern mind, thanks to science education, is focused on the one-sided empirical approach to knowledge by sensuous perception, but this fails to account for the role of subjective cognition or conception - the role of consciousness in such perceptions. This artificial separation of the original unity-in-difference between conception and content has been rendered impossible to broach because of the historical metaphysical tradition of dualism firmly held by the fathers of modern science such as Galileo and Descartes.

The presumed impossible gap between subject and object is bridged once we realize that the object is what the subject knows it to be. This does not reduce the object to the subject as the abstract idealists (monists) naively are only too hasty to presume as an immediate identity (oneness). Mediation is involved; there are both difference and identity at play. It is merely lazy un-thinking that ignores the intricate dynamic in the mediating activity that is the heart and life of consciousness. The main purpose of the book is to restore the central importance of the conceptual moment that is integral to science and which makes it truly worthy of the name Science or scientific knowledge. 

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“The scientists would say ‘everything is made from some electrons.’ The smallest atom is hydrogen and that is made of an electron [and a proton and neutron] but that doesn’t produce consciousness or life. We are not just moving electrons – electricity. Produce all the electricity you want but you cannot produce life. The scientists cannot produce even a grain of rice. We could not live if we were depending on the scientists. Life is the most important principle, not matter, but where is it coming from?”

— Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.
(Serving Director, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute)

Futility of strict shastra based laws

YES. Vivekananda was writing pages after pages in his book about "difference between Aryas and Mlechhas'.

And these guys here are saying that Vivekananda disapproves of the concept and existence of Mlechhas. Ha ha ha.

RW liberalism makes people dumb

https://twitter.com/TIinExile/status/1308753642808246272?s=19

@HindolSengupta is right. Vivekananda is not condeming Mlecchas here, he is simply using it as a counter against Brahmin orthodoxy. He says 'if you want to blindly follow Shastras, then burn urself as well' . @TIinExile should be fair and accept the mistake

https://t.co/bY5rSmCOpO

https://twitter.com/Okeera4/status/1308735358410973184?s=19

@TIinExile was right about the iconography of Vamana . He was also right a out Ashoka ( he became a Buddhist before invading Kalinga) . But he is wrong here . We have to be intellectually honest if we are seeking the truth . Nothing personal

Swami Vivekananda is not using these examples to denounce Mlecchas , as you suggested , but is simply using the discourse to point out the futility of strict shastra based laws in the modern context.

Indeed, the root is your rebuttal to this tweet .Question is whether Swami Vivekananda opposed the notion of Mleccha.U quoted a snippet in which he USED the term;this isn't rebuttal since the context was rhetorical , and not endorsement of Mleccha concept

https://t.co/UxiGz75vwW

https://twitter.com/Okeera4/status/1308748131358523396?s=19

I never made the claim that he never used the word Mleccha . Pls read the threads again 

My entire point was based on the original claim of @HindolSengupta suggesting that SV DISAPPROVED of the of Mleccha concept . Your countered that he USED the word . This is not a rebuttal++

The 1887 comment on food was clearly rhetorical and cannot be taken as his definitive view. But if you were to show that the other dozen or so references were after the 1984 speech , I will concede

https://twitter.com/Okeera4/status/1308756245432549382?s=19

To be honest , it does suggest that he placed Aryan values over Mleccha values . But this cannot be considered a final picture of someone who wrote as widely as Swami Vivekananda . @HindolSengupta 's tweet might be what SV ultimately thought about the matter . To counter HS++

To counter HS++ , one should show a chronologically later quote of SV where he re asserts the Arya-Mleccha binary

https://twitter.com/Okeera4/status/1308753663834251264?s=19

Swami Vivekananda was of course playing to the western gallery on western soil. Hatred in the context he mentions connotes safeguarding oneself from evil or ill influences of degrading culture and is not the harmful emotion it is associated with.

https://twitter.com/sanjeevkadv/status/1308774593339957249?s=19

See Brother on the Context of Dharm there is no bigger authority than Guru Sankaracharya , mean no disrespect to Swami Vivekananda, this by no means was a disrespect of him,but when it comes to Dharm only Sankaracharya is the Highest authority not swami vivekananda...

https://twitter.com/ka2ekaatejaenge/status/1308773845822832645?s=19

Yeah. Secularisation of Vivekananda and Paramahamsa is widespread. 

Swami Vivekananda is shown as a nationalist, but his hindu identity is suppressed.

https://twitter.com/lifeofsurya/status/1308757291009597447?s=19

Vivekananda has been promoted by Christian World .Many of his things he said were false .Read traditional Hindu books

https://twitter.com/Subhash194/status/1308757891491528708?s=19

Mlecchha is probably derived from Meluha, people beyond the Makkoran or Makran coast. It means different culture. I don't know what formal education Swami Vivekananda had in Hindu dharmic tenets, his Guru was a mystic.

https://twitter.com/vijayvaani/status/1308758001428254720?s=19

To clarify my stand on Vivekananda - like any other human being he had his own fault lines. But the never ending love,courage and compassion he had for the cause of awakening the spirit of India and continuing to inspire India is second to none.

https://twitter.com/chyavanmallya/status/1308763069070241793?s=19

He is Shankaracharya Maharaj, has higher authority than Vivekananda.

Vivekananda maybe well versed on the philosophical part (as Maharaj Himself admits) but had a very poor understanding of Varna Ashrama Dharma.

https://twitter.com/gajaturagapada/status/1308763754272702467?s=19

So Swami Vivekananda travelled all the way to Melacha land, to address malechas as brothers & sisters.

Sir - this is not Sincere.

Do not call spade a Holy spade

🙏

https://twitter.com/pa_dd_y/status/1308764200160776192?s=19

I am not interested in arguments but facts. What you presented itself says that Vivekananda had great reverence for Jesus. 

Anyway, you are free to keep your biases. Bye.

https://twitter.com/TUndercoverMonk/status/1308764462350958592?s=19

What Vivekananda is saying is practice what you preach then the world would be at your feet. The particular example was taken as the orthodox brahmin society at that time preached such things but themselves hobnobbed with Mughals, Brits etc

https://t.co/B9gehbrhCA

https://twitter.com/Dutt_An/status/1308766668471119878?s=19

Vivekananda is a rookie lmao. Calling him the "greatest"😂

English speaking is not a measure of one's intellect. At best Vivekananda can be compared to pop culture "Gurus" like Sadhguru 😂

Ever heard of Dharma Samraat Karpatri Maharaj? Yeah he is the G.O.A.T.

https://twitter.com/raghav22554468/status/1308767993808080896?s=19

Science theory is a subdiscipline of ethics

Here you finally admit the way you really think. You have concluded in advance that the Srimad Bhagavad-gita is truth, and that anything that contradicts it must be explained away by hook or by crook. It is not surprising, then, that you callously accuse hundreds of thousands of scientists of having done the exact same thing: you're projecting, because you have never even imagined that anyone would actually think in a scientific way.

... you admit that you only pretend to engage in science – that the goal for you is not better understanding of the subject matter of science, but "to achieve the ultimate goal of the human form of life"! The outer appearance of science is just a means to a completely different end to you! Here, too, it is not surprising that you callously accuse hundreds of thousands of scientists of having done the exact same thing: you're projecting your own goal-oriented thinking onto everyone else, because you have never even imagined that anyone would actually think in a scientific way.

Please don't get me wrong. If you believe you know what ultimate goal of the human form of life is, and how to achieve it, by all means do so and tell us about it! I'll be honestly happy for you! But it would be a fundamental misunderstanding to believe that science tries to achieve any such goal. The goal of science is to better understand its subject matter (which I like to call "reality" as possibly distinct from "truth"); no less, no more. Don't pretend to pursue that goal when you're actually pursuing a quite different one. You would only continue to confuse people – including, evidently, yourself.

Of course not many scientists are _only_ scientists, _only_ insterested in the goal of science. Many believe in political or religious ideologies and hope to use the understanding they gain through science to further the goals of these ideologies. As an almost trivial example, a noticeable number of scientists have been (and of course some are today) Christians who hoped that their research in the sciences of nature, of Creation, would give them greater insight into the Creator. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this kind of thing. But the moment you assume you _already have_ that greater insight into the Creator and deduce from it that anything in science which appears to contradict this insight must be explained away by hook or by crook – that moment you are no longer a scientist, you're no longer doing science.

Be honest with yourself. Science is the application of science theory, and science theory is a subdiscipline of ethics – the ethics of belief.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Belief

David Marjanovic

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An almost hymnal rhythm to the prose

Holland’s central thesis is that the West, despite its loss of faith and abandonment of religious ritualism, remains nonetheless thoroughly Christian. That modernity (and even post-modernity) as it is commonly understood in the West is a product of Christian assumptions not necessarily shared by other civilisations and that these continue to inspire and inform its contemporary moral precepts and social mores. [...]

When Nietzsche declared God to be dead he was declaring in effect, that everyman (and woman) was henceforth their own god. It is a message that in the one hundred and twenty years since his passing has been embraced with alacrity across Western Europe. While, as Holland points out, Nietzsche had lamented that Christianity’s sternutatory pollen still afflicted European noses back in the late 1800s, were he a witness to our current post-modernist era I suspect his mood would be far more upbeat.

Leo Strauss, the famous 20^th century political scientist, saw in the artistic output of a civilisation the reification of its philosophical underpinnings and where once this had a distinctly Christian radiance today it carries the aura of…well nothing. In the words of Douglas Murray, the renowned neoconservative author: [...]

Today, as Western birth rates plummet (based upon distinctly un-Christian assumptions and attitudes) and its nations find themselves in the grip of a collective neurasthenia induced by the massive and sudden collapse in faith, the clamour amongst the Muslim multitudes for the revival of the Caliphate – for the restoration of the City of God and for His Will to be done on Earth as it is in Heaven – grows ever stronger. In an irony befitting of a Biblical parable, it is Muslims today who lay far more an authentic claim to the legacy of Jesus (peace be upon him) and Paul, than the average ‘Christian’ European or American. 

[Ok, so I've finally published my musings on @holland_tom's latest book Dominion (it was recently released in paperback). It's long (9700 words) but of all my blog posts over the years I really do recommend you read this one.] https://t.co/24lzETkuKY

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Similar to your talk "Why Organisms are not only Machines?", today we have also received a very nice new submission for the event with the title "Biological Evidence Against the Mechanical and Chemical Simplification of Organisms" by Dr. Alak Kumar Patra. 

We would like to share with you and other on this list one interesting peer reviewed articles Organisms ≠ Machines published by Daniel J. Nicholson (Senior Research Fellow, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research) at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369848613000824

This article Highlights

Organisms and machines differ in their internal organizational dynamics.

Organisms are intrinsically purposive whereas machines are extrinsically purposive.

Machine metaphors in biology are theoretically inadequate but heuristically useful.

The rhetorical use of machine metaphors provides support for intelligent design.

Thanking you. Sincerely,

Bhakti Niskama Shanta

"Life is a unity in multiplicity. It is a process as a united flow, but it consists of many instantaneous moments - like the frames of a movie. The tendency of abstract understanding is to either think of a unity OR a multiplicity. Pure multiplicity is indicative of the atomic thinking of material reductionism. Pure unity is the indeterminateness of abstract monism. Unity in multiplicity is the comprehensive thinking of dialectical reason. Life has to be comprehended as a process in which its participants are simultaneously both ends and means to one another."

— Śrīpād Bhakti Mādhava Purī Mahārāja, Ph.D.

(Serving Director of Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA: http://bviscs.org )

Well, as far as I understand, this framework buckles when applied to most of the universe. A star has a material cause (a cloud of hydrogen), an efficient cause (gravity) and a formal cause (gravity plus electrostatic repulsion). Ockham's Razor denies that a star has a final cause. I have a material cause (food), an efficient cause (hard to summarize, but ultimately electrostatic attraction and repulsion) and a formal cause (DNA). I have a final cause only in so far as my parents wanted a child; they did not specifically want me, nor did they have a way of imagining specifically me, nor would that have changed anything.

Genetics entails the hypothesis that DNA is (most of) the formal cause for various of these traits, but also that mutations in the DNA are random. It does not entail any belief in a final cause.

The environment is the efficient cause of natural selection. But selection happens among alleles that have arisen by random mutation. Mutations have all kinds of efficient causes, including Brownian motion, chemical tautomery of nucleotides, and radioactive decay; the latter two are genuinely random parts of quantum physics to the best of current understanding.

Here, too, there is no need to assume any final cause.

Yes, with the understanding that there is no point in trying to figure out the (efficient, let alone final) cause of any particular mutation.

At the risk of reinventing the wheel, I like to make a distinction between "truth" and "reality".

Reality is that where the _argumentum ad lapidem_ is not a logical fallacy. Science deals with reality, not necessarily with truth.

Truth could be the same as reality. This option is called physicalism; of course it is the simplest assumption, so if your metametaphysics https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Metametaphysics&oldid=593996199 includes Ockham's Razor, it will prefer physicalism. Only under this option is science necessarily able to tell us anything about truth.

Or, of course, the truth could be that I'm the solipsist, and that reality is nothing but a remarkably consistent figment of my imagination. In that case, _argumenta ad lapidem_ would be just as silly as philosophers generally think they are, and science would just be my own exploration of my own mind.

Or, of course, the truth could be that God is the solipsist, and that reality (including my mind this time) is nothing but a figment of His imagination. As far as I understand, some Christian philosophers have wondered aloud about this.

Or, of course, the truth could be that reality is _māyā_.

Or, of course, reality could be a metaphor for truth. This idea underlies a number of religions. (In the Gospel According to Matthew, Jesus does pretty much everything "in order to fulfill Scripture" – to make history an image of truth, one could say.)

So, when I say "wrong", I mean wrong within the confines of reality. Whether the truth is different is a separate question, and a question that does not need to be answered for science to work.

Best regards,

David Marjanović

The main target of this brilliant essay comes later, in his refutation of the claim that servomechanisms, such as a target-seeking mechanism in a torpedo, are intrinsically purposeful. I recommend reading it to anyone interested in the claims of "strong AI."

Peter Nyikos 

Professor, Dept. of Mathematics 

University of South Carolina 

http://people.math.sc.edu

Dear Peter Nyikos, 

Namaste. It is necessary to clarify between inner and outer teleology in order to fully consider the purposeful existence of things.

Aristotle's position was that inanimate natural phenomena, such as rocks, only have external teleology. They may be utilized in some purposeful way by organisms. In reference to mechanical artifacts such as a roulette or clock, we must understand that our use for them, their external purpose (which includes the roulette's purposeful design to be unpredictable) is separate from the internal purpose of the device. Internally, a roulette's purpose is to be spun and slowly become still. The internal teleology of a clock is for the gears to move. External teleology is relative to a thing's external environment. Telling time is a purpose which is externally applied to a clock, and would not be evident to one who does not have prior familiarity with the connection between a clock and time.

Internal and external teleology take on a dialectical aspect when considered in terms of organisms, as explained by Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja:

"Participants cannot be isolated from the whole in which they are participants and remain what they are. A DNA molecule can no more be what it is as a producer of protein molecules, than the protein molecules can be what they are as produced from the action of DNA, and producing the DNA. Each participant is cause and effect of every other participant, as Kant defined organism. Therefore nothing in an organism is without purpose, nor is the organism as a whole without purpose in the environment. Thus everything in the organism is both purpose [end] and means."

Kind regards,

Krishna Keshava Das

Serving Assistant

Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science www.bviscs.org

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Malady of mechanical bias in ontological thinking

Dear friends, 

Namste. Often the concept of the center of the functional unity of the living cell is presumed to be understood by the unsuspecting modern educated man as something mechanical, chemical or emergent whole. 

However a sincere student of science must inquire about the fundamentals and not be satisfied merely by utilitarian ends of such assumptions in biology. In this regard we can refer to the Socratic method, the essence of which has been to apply its techniques to discover what we do not know about what we have assumed to be already known.

The cell is considered the smallest functional unit of life. From a reductionist viewpoint, the cell is made up of atoms and molecules which are actively producing all the necessary requirements for the cell to act functionally. Thus we have so many chemical cycles such as the Krebs cycle, photosynthesis, ATP process etc. But is it sufficient for us to conclude from these that the cell is reducible to molecules. 

Traditionally there are three logical concepts dealing with reality. (1) Mechanical logic dealing with machines, (2) Chemical logic dealing with chemical activity and (3) The logic of the organic whole, which is to deal with objects with internal teleology, such as living organisms. Organic wholes are not a result of addition of parts. They are produced from already existing wholes and are irreducible to mechanical or chemical logic. In this way natural processes have been described in philosophy. 

But the biological studies in modern science have yet to let go of the mechanical bias in their ontological thinking. Socratic Methodology gives us a precise methodology to settle the question. We can focus on the question: Where is the center of the functional unity of the cell. 

The subjects of Socrates' conversations often revolved around search for a definition focused on the true nature of the subject under question and not just on how the word is used correctly in a sentence. Hence our focus should be what is the true concept of the cell, rather than what we think nature should be, or what merely a mechanism should be. We must let go of our different biases and allow nature to reveal to us. Further even though we may be professors, or scientists or coreligionists or whatever, we must take up the position of a student, and allow ourselves to be taught through these questions. We should desist the tendency to declare opinion of an individual, or of the majority as truth. This cannot be the criteria of truth of any subject in hand.

We must recognize ideas such as Mechanical Whole, Chemical Whole and Organic Whole etc are ideas. Where as the subject here is the Functional Unity of the Cell. There are according Prof. R.W. Paul, from University of Michigan six types of Socratic questions that can help us gain valid knowledge:

1. Questions for clarification: E.g. we may ask why do we think that the cell follows merely mechanical and chemical concept of Whole. How does it relate to the question of the unity of cell functioning etc.

2. Questions that probe assumptions: Why have we moved away from the logic of organic whole which was understood by philosophers like Kant, Hegel, Aristotle and Plato. Kant had even said that there will never be a Newton for the Blade of Grass. Then all of a sudden why the current shift of ontological thinking about the unity of the functional cell to a mechanical logic.

3. Questions that probe reasons and evidence: What would be an example of a cell that follows logic of mechanical and chemical whole in natural processes. Why there is no result after more than 150 years attempts to manufacture even a single bacterium from de novo processes in our advanced chemical labs even after spending billions of dollars worth of time and manpower. What is the Causal principle behind the cellular function. Why is it still irreducible to linear simplicity. Cell continues to display circular complexity in its causal flow. So how can we accept the mechanical reduction of the organism.

4. Questions about Viewpoints and Perspectives: Then what will be the alternative for us. How many things and properties have we explained in these different logical concepts. Which one comes out as the most relevant of all. Why there is no agreement among scientists. Why different schools such as semiosis, which focuses on living organisms, even at the level of DNA code, being interpreted by the organisms etc as sign systems gaining popularity. Should we not go back to what the erudite philosophers have always said. That is life comes from life. The concept of Unity of the functional cell is afterall the teleological concept of the Organic Whole discussed by Kant and Hegel.

5. Questions that probe implications and consequences: What are the general feature of cellular function. For example we may say, irreducibility of complexity, that intelligent and smart, novel features come out more easily in which picture. What do these imply for the concept.

6. Questions about the question: What was the point of mechanistic approach and spending so much valuable time and energy over the past 200 years, without any positive result. What does this effort of scientist mean to us. How does this apply to the deeper question of life. etc

Socrates is well known for his questioning style. He would disarm anyone who had a presumption of being knowledgeable and bring them to the point of thinking the very contradictory result. from their own presumptions. Thus he would prove that they knew nothing. Even Socrates said that he himself knew nothing. But he acknowledged at least he knew that he knew nothing. But generally everyone is thinking that they know, when they knew nothing. This is called Socratic Irony. Isn't that again applicable today. We try to explain the organisms as chemicals or objects. But they turn out to be subjects, intelligent, purposive etc. Then what kind of basis we should have for biological thought. This must be focus of education for all of us.

Thanking you,

Bhakti Vijnana Muni

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Ordered structure of a crystal

Fundamental difference between the nature of Mechanical, Chemical and Biological Systems

 Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.

 Serving Director of Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA

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The unity of a mechanical system, like the solar system, made up of mechanical objects, is established externally in the form of a law, which reigns outside of and over the parts and by which the parts of the system are regulated. On the other hand, the unity of the chemical system is intrinsic to the parts, arising from their intrinsic natures. The ordered structure of a crystal is based on the nature of the constituent parts of a chemical system. Still, the parts of a chemical system retain their identity even apart from the interactive system, so that their initial and final states can be differentiated. In this sense the parts are both independent as well as dependent. For example, an acid and alkali can be isolated in different bottles and then added together to form a third substance - a neutral salt.

Those parts that can not be separated from a system without destroying it as a working system, can no longer be called parts but are participants or members of a dynamic whole. The participants are as essential to the whole as the whole is to the participants - this is the biological system or organism. Here we are removed from the stasis of fixed objects and are in the milieu of pure dynamical activity. Participants cannot be isolated from the whole in which they are participants and remain what they are. A DNA molecule can no more be what it is as a producer of protein molecules, than the protein molecules can be what they are as produced from the action of DNA, and producing the DNA. Each participant is cause and effect of every other participant, as Kant defined organism. Therefore nothing in an organism is without purpose, nor is the organism as a whole without purpose in the environment. Thus everything in the organism is both purpose [end] and means.

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Dear Friends,

Namaste. The Soctratean view is that Knowledge is inseparable from the Notion of Virtue. This view is congruent with the Vedanctic view. For example in the Bhagavad - Gita (5.18), it is mentioned:

vidya-vinaya-sampanne brahmane gavi hastini

suni caiva sva-pake ca panditah sama-darsinah 

Translation: The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste].

We can find here in Bhagavad - Gita also, that the notion of knowledge is inseparable from the virtue known as humility. More importantly the Bhagavad-Gita considers Knowledge is also connected to the notion of Shreya , which means that which is eternally good for the self, without any trace of inauspiciousness. Knowledge must lead to true and pure auspiciousness or Good. This is also an important ingredient in the Socratic Philosophy, where the notion of Good is Ultimate idea or Form (Eidos).

In their theory of Eidos, which is translated as Theory of Ideas or Forms, Forms are the non-physical essences of all things, of which objects and matter in the physical world are merely imitations. Plato suggests that these Forms are the only objects of study that can provide knowledge. They considered that these Ideals or Forms were real and the objects of the world were merely imitations of these ideals. These ideals constitute all the essential features of all individual objects belonging to the same class. For example what all trees have in common that makes them trees. Or what all acts of justice have in common that makes them just.

These are ideas and hence Plato’s theory of Reality is called idealism. These are the perfect, unchanging examplars of all naturally occurring existences and all good things. These include for example perfect tree, dog, horse and also perfect circle, triangle, straight line etc. Additionally when all such Eidos are considered, then by reason one can arrive at the Ultimate Eidos, which is that which all other Eidos have in common. This ultimate Form of Eidos is the “Good”.

Thus we find in the Socratean-Platonian view that Reality in highest form is the Form of the Good, and is Independently real and the material realm with all its object were dependent reality. The Form of Good is therefore Independent, immaterial and Perfect. Whereas the material realm is constituted of objects that are all imperfect imitations of the perfect realm of Forms, or Ideals, whose Ultimate Form is The Good. .

In the Bhagavad-Gita, the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna has mentioned BG (10.41):

 yad yad vibhūtimat sattvaṁ śrīmad ūrjitam eva vā

tat tad evāvagaccha tvaṁ mama tejo-’ṁśa-sambhavam

Translation: Know that all opulent, beautiful and glorious creations spring from but a spark of My splendor.

The difficulty of the modern positivist line of thought is that they are concerned with only the measurable, sensible side of the reality. But they are not encouraging reason. But there is also the negative side. Reason can see this. We have to only recognize this. There is no thought without the thinker. thus thought and thinking always go together inseparably. We have to recognize both the sides of Reality: Positive and Negative side and the movement between them. Philosophy and Science Proper can only begin here. It only requires us to recognize this.

There is a vast reality that is accessible to reason, but we ignore that and try to reduce everything to the positive, appearing side of the energy. But the Vedantic truth finds truth in the Socratic view and it is also being confirmed in modern science as they failed to explain how consciousness could arise from matter.

Thanking you,

Bhakti Vijnana Muni, PhD

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Is the field of genetics not a product of the belief that there is a cause for the various traits found among individuals in a given species? Is evolution not a product of the belief that there is a cause for the variety of species, and the similarities seen among them, that we observe in nature?  Is biology not based on a desire to understand life, to figure out what causes the vastly intricate nature of biological systems?

You conclude by defining a principle which, I presume, you see as fundamental to science:

"Science: 'if I were wrong, how would I know?'"

On the surface, this seems to imply that science is a means to systematically align one's consciousness with consistently empirically observable phenomena interpreted as truth.  However your definition reveals some deeper assumptions which are fundamental to our teleological nature. The simple recognition of, or consideration of possibly being wrong, alludes to a desire for truth. If we indeed "just exist", than why this tendency towards a desire for truth? This inherent nature towards truth is called inner-teleology.    


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Krishna Keshava Das

Serving Assistant

Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute

of Spiritual Culture and Science

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David Loye recovers the true views of Darwin

Just to lend support to my comments that Darwin was much broader minded than neo-Darwinists, David Loye’s book does a nice job recovering the true views of Darwin.

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Respectfully, I agree with JJ Kineman. Mayr should not be cited, even correctly, for the notion that there is something valid about vitalism. While he may have acknowledged that as a logical thing, he unquestionably had very strong views about biology, and he held, as an overarching principle, that Darwinian evolution was a fact (i.e., not a theory). IOW, there is no way he could be read philosophically (albeit he was not a philosopher per se) to admit non-material causal influences. Maybe that Mayr statement will give a grad student studying Mayr something to explain away, but it should be read, if at all philosophically, as evidence Mayr was not trained in philosophy. 

John Lunstroth

At present biologists are only studying the body of the living organism using physics and chemistry where they completely ignore the very essence of life: thinking, feeling and willing. Biology cannot be grasped by mere physical sciences. We need philosophy to understand the concepts like thinking, feeling and willing.  

Thanking you.

Sincerely,

Bhakti Niskama Shanta

On Thursday, 8 August, 2019,

In the last thirty years, the science of development genetics has figured out how this works, and the answers don't involve any additional force of nature that the physicists had overlooked.

 

I really recommend the whole lecture, and would be happy to discuss it all.

 

My gripe with the size of e-mails is very simple: the e-mails sent on this mailing list are often unusually large – enough so that, several times, they have filled my inbox, and I couldn't receive any further e-mails for hours or days. That is extremely annoying. It is simply rude to send e-mails without any regard for their size, or at least their ratio of information content to size. The two sentences you quoted stand for themselves – what was the point of illustrating them with a photo of the person who said them? What did that contribute, other than making the whole e-mail look like a clumsy argument from authority?

 

Please consider these matters.

 

Sincerely,

David Marjanović

Bhakti Nishkama Shanta

With great respect, thank you for the clarification. As you know from our wonderful conference at Rutgers, there is general agreement on these points, and yet also a desire to accurately represent these historical figures and their views, as well as counter-arguments. I am keenly aware of the present degradation of society in general by the very tempting employment of snapshot impressions and sound-bites. I think we may come to realize at some point that advertising, while necessary for honest exchange, turns evil when it becomes marketing. We’ve seen this now in our politics. We are at a time in history when we must learn to avoid it. As a career scientist, now embracing strong spiritualism as well, and observer of current politics, I very am concerned about any kind of information marketing strategy, and especially the tit-for-tat exchange that leads us to greater polarity. I think Prof. Marjanovic’s comments are to be taken seriously even though I strongly support the message you are trying to get out. I have also studied Ernst Meyr, and my impression was that he was struggling to admit as little as possible to vitalism, while citing it as the target, and to characterize it as a false impression of something more physically real. I disagreed with his assessment in 1988 and I still do. What you and BVI are aware of is true and real. And yet to establish that in the awareness of others must conform to the very highest standards of communication, standards that are rapidly eroding all around us by the misuse of media. It is ironic that I should write this to BVI, which is certainly committed to universal Truth, and struggling against all kinds of mischaracterization of not just spiritual and religious views (often falsely attributed in a negative way by others) but also of BVI’s legitimate scientific views that a majority of ‘scientific populists’ in the Western culture simply don’t like. In many cases their dislike is for reasons that are so empty that their comments can only come as insults. I am not identifying anyone in particular here, just the general nature of public dialogue on social media. So, in perhaps seeming to criticize the recent posting I am really wanting to help present the message. In the Veda it is said that method is greater than end, and actually determines the true character of the end that will be karmically achieved —- quite opposite to the Machiavellian philosophy of “the ends justify the means” which still permeates Western thinking. I think the best we can do is to present the new understanding of reality and show its warm embrace of the full view of those imagining opposition to it. Their opposition will help clarify it. Meanwhile, I want to reserve the option of disagreeing with Meyr on most of his position (at least past position - I’m eating crow if that has changed). 

Respectfully,

John Kineman

Dear Prof. John Jay Kineman,

Namaste.

We hope that you are doing well. Thank you for your comments and agreeing with the statement of Ernst Mayr that the basic problems of biology simply cannot be solved by a philosophy as that of Descartes, in which the organism is simply considered a machine. 

Ernst Mayr sincerely tried to critique the machine concept of organism and the evidence of the same can be found from his works. The view on living organisms and the attempt to understand biology in terms of physics in modern science is mostly derived more or less directly from the stance which equates organisms as mechanical (machines) in nature. Our Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute sees this as a dangerously misleading characterization about the nature of life. Moreover, we have to understand that this is not just a matter of importance for historians of science but all the concepts of modern biology (for example: seeing protein complexes as molecular-machines; behavior of organism along with its development as a mere execution of a program encoded in the genome; and so on) are driven by this dangerously misleading characterization. Therefore, one of our institute's work is focused on helping the honest and sincere scientists recognize this misconception that is obstructing our progress towards developing a genuine scientific understanding of life.

Thanking you.

Sincerely,

Bhakti Niskama Shanta

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Namaste Ram,

We should not distort the conclusion "Brahman in All" or "All in Brahman" to mean that we infinitesimal living entities are the exact same as Brahman, the Supreme Being.  We may be of the same quality as Brahman, but we are quantitatively very different.  His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains this differentiation very nicely in the following purport of Chaitanya Charitamrita Adi-lila (CC Adi) 14.33: 

"In reality, everything is an emanation from the supreme source (janmādy asya yataḥ). The original energy is exhibited in varieties, exactly as the sunshine, the original energy emanating from the sun, exhibits itself in variety as light and heat. One cannot say that light is heat or that heat is light, yet one cannot separate one from the other. Therefore Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s philosophy is acintya-bhedābheda,inconceivable nonseparation and distinction. Although there is an affinity between the two physical manifestations light and heat, there is also a difference between them. Similarly, although the whole cosmic manifestation is the Lord’s energy, the energy is nevertheless exhibited in varieties of manifestations."

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Maybe a similar version of this works.  If it is a question of certainty it can be answered by philosophy in the concept of testability. It seems counterintuitive at first but if a proposition is testable in principle, as all scientific hypotheses are supposed to be, then it is impossible to be certain of the answer because the test is finite and the universe of possibilities is infinite. For this reason experimental science prefers to work from reasonable attempts to disprove.  But it is different with untestable assumptions in our world view. These are in principle not testable, so if they are arbitrary it is possible for us to be certain of them in the sense that they are all right.  There is an indirect form of testability however in deciding which theory framework produces the better theory. So for example Ptolemy’s idea of divine circles isn’t actually proven wrong and cant be, but people found Newton’s idea more parsimonious and useful. I can thus be certain the Ptolemy’s metaphysics are not wrong and so answer the question but I cant do that exclusively between metaphysical propositions. So they are all correct therefore certainty is the case for each.   Does that argument work with regard to GT?

I was alluding to this fact in my earlier post saying that the four quadrant framework is a meta-theory. The formal theory we build from it is subject to testing but the framework is a mathematical pattern that is subject to proof just as the idea of a circle is. Perhaps the other theory frames being discussed are also mathematically provable, perhaps not  ... do we know?

John

Hi all,

A version of idealism proposes that matter (such as stone or table) is a condensed form of consciousness. The inverse of this is that consciousness is decondensed (sublimated) form of matter. [Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase, without passing through the intermediate liquid phase.] Thus, in essence, it seems to imply that matter = consciousness and vice-versa. Does this make sense to you?

If this hypothesis is not rejected then all four metaphysical/foundational frameworks (materialism, idealism, dualism, and multi-aspect monism) are simply different ways of “looking” the same fundamental truth. In that case, all metaphysical foundations can claim for “self-certainty” in their own language and GT (Gemini Theorem) cannot be applied.

Cheers!

Kind regards,

Rām

Rām Lakhan Pāndey Vimal, Ph.D.

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B Chakrabarty, BK Jha - 2019

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Ashis Nandy n Dipesh Chakrabarty have mocked at Sri Aurobindo's contribution to India n the world. They won't last beyond 2025. Fake historians!

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Who is the most authentic social historian in India ? Sri Aurobindo (writer of The Human Cycle n The Foundations of Indian Culture) or the unit made of Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Chatterjee, Ashis Nandy n Romila Thapar? Time to judge .

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One needs a basic training in the scriptures to comment on Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita, the most complete, the most authentic, the most integral, the ultimate synthetic view of Sri Krishna's uttered n uttered songs. Chakraborty is not fit to pass judgement on SA's Gita.

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Mental intelligence cannot reach out to Sri Aurobindo's Gita. One must develop the faculty of higher reason, even if intuition is unreachable for him/her. https://t.co/XopHZlKefH

An American Sri Aurobindo scholar knows the  value of The Human Cycle. But the Indian sociologists r blind! https://t.co/GBwopz9eVi

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Among other things we have to highlight 2  major socio-psychological-historical books by Sri Aurobindo. The Human Cycle n The Foundations of Indian Culture. The Master is not just a poet, he is also a sociologist, historian n an observer of the psychology of human development.

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Agree about Anjana C, but CIIS is not anti Hindu, was established by Dr Haridas Choudhary, among the foremost disciple of Sri Aurobindo, with an integral approach to combine best of Eastern and Wester thoughts.

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The crowning achievement of Romila Thapar, that cult-goddess of Marxist historiography in India, is that she could pass off as the voice of the subaltern, while all the time, actually being the ‘colonial masters’’ voice. @arvindneela https://t.co/B3ezeH1u0q

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How a false charge by British led to the discovery of Shri Aurobindo as we know him today https://t.co/6ZIwKvIXBN via @postcard_news

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noticed though that many RW's who feel Churchill was worse than Hitler...... also admire Israel & feel India needs to emulate their ways.   # strange bedfellows indeed. 🙄

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forgot to add the Japanese to the list. They often forget that Sri Aurobindo refused to support SC Bose on this matter. He felt Japanese Imperialism was worse ...... & this from a man who admired the Japanese Samurai culture.

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Subhas Chandra Bose on Sri Aurobindo

https://t.co/A82glG7BC7  / The Bourgeois and the Samurai1

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Norbert Wiener, who certainly is the first person to formulate computer-based control systems, compared such manipulation of people by computer systems to cattle being imprisoned within an electric fence that gives a mild shock. 

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Angana Chatterjee married to Richard Shapiro who is Director and Associate Professor of the Grad. Anthropology Program at CIIS, also a very anti-Hindu body. In fact, Shapiro was barred from entering India in 2010.

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A LIST OF THE 50 BIGGEST ENEMIES OF HINDUS (Dead or Alive) contd…

16 Angana Chatterjee is one of the most venomous anti-Hindu in USA The irony is that she is a Hindu herself & started in an association named after India’s avatar, himself a great defender of Hindus Sri Aurobindo

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Essays in Philosophy and Yoga consists of short works in prose written by Sri Aurobindo between 1909 and 1950 and published during his lifetime, deals primarily with aspects of spiritual philosophy and yoga. Get it here.

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Bulk of character-traits are transmitted through genes and some are emergent. Marriages generally being confined to a caste, concentration of skills and attitudes is not unusual. So, birth-based Varna is a fact. However, Sanskritisation as indicated by M.N. Srinivas is also true.

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It's not a question of what you do or I profess, as if we are autonomous beings functioning in isolation. Resistance to knowledge is the root of the problem; understanding things should be the priority without going ballistic at the first instance. Sri Aurobindo demands humility.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1168793019673239553?s=19

What you are attributing to Sri Aurobindo may not be accurate. In its origin, Varna was different but it degenerated and Sri Aurobindo won't be blind to such a stark reality. As regards giving children, it sounds too proprietary for each individual pursues his or her own destiny.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1168788926884016129?s=19

Well, that may be one point of view, but if you read Sri Aurobindo, more insights can be gained on the issue. Read about how he explains Mitra and Varuna in his The Secret of the Veda. Four powers are basic to a perfect social organisation and he has elaborated it in Human Cycle.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1168791580100030465?s=19

Marketime: Declared ideological positions are at odds with true scholarship https://t.co/sYXWc0dwse #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE, OM SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER.

Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar, Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168591618519076864?s=19

While a day has so much of variety in terms of circadian rhythm and allied psychological rollercoaster that we ride, annual Merry-go-round of seasons seems to have no noticeable effect or causal factors in human functioning. This disconnect is surprising when even sea sees tides.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168444579340644352?s=19

No, I think it changes. The effects are at hormonal level that modulate all body activities. Āyurveda discusses change of proportions in Vāta, Pitta and Kapha. It may not be immediate, like the neurotransmitters that change by circadian rhythms, but subtle effects will be there.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1168775334994599936?s=19

Further compilation of problems with solar energy https://t.co/dbz3RGT1P0 #publicpolicy

https://twitter.com/sabhlok/status/1168716731042467840?s=19

Mr. Sabhlok read your article in TOI. Brilliantly put. You are the only person who is highlighting issues pertaining to wasteful land usage and low energy density of solar. Thank you.

https://twitter.com/highnoontide/status/1168748780977410048?s=19

Have you heard of the phrase Dimag Ki Batti Jala De? A few centuries ago, one European scientist had that moment. It led to a series of discoveries that enhanced our knowledge of electricity. https://t.co/qwUulj4vFG

https://twitter.com/madrascourier/status/1168777470444625921?s=19

Huge decrease in social infrastructure since 2012:  does lack of youth clubs, and libraries contribute to loneliness and social isolation in people with and without mental health problems? https://t.co/CWUSAesRE7

https://twitter.com/UCL_Loneliness/status/1168498218675658753?s=19

Britain is being stripped of its social infrastructure > 760+ youth clubs have shut across since 2012. A pub closes every 12 hours. Nearly 130 libraries were scrapped last year, and those that survive in England have lopped off 230,000 opening hours. https://t.co/KCnXzftvCa

https://twitter.com/TessyBritton/status/1167754746272374784?s=19

Panditji, everyone knows His own Mahabharata. There is no THE Mahabharata. If the epic teaches you anything, it teaches an understanding of multiple viewpoints. https://t.co/JtS7pRs6Tm

https://twitter.com/sanjayuvacha/status/1168722915925217280?s=19

The story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the greatest mathematical genius the world saw in recent years who had no formal education. https://t.co/SllEKgEzwl

https://twitter.com/DiscoverMag/status/1168939313251454980?s=19

The wonderful article by Nakul Krishna on A K Ramanujam in the current issue of @thecaravanindia : http://t.co/s0pxSpLwzP

https://twitter.com/veejaysai/status/366231982495105025?s=19

A. K Ramanujam wrote his seminal essay on 300 Ramayanas. Perhaps the no. 300 is an arbitrary. As many Ramayanas & Mahabharatas exist as one’s imagination can make. Each episode in the epics can be explained in innumerable ways. That’s true timelessness.

https://twitter.com/vijayadar/status/990478292561158145?s=19

Each version is true in its own way. Which version one accepts is wholly dependent on that person’s intellectual ability to comprehend the deeper meanings. Amar Chitra Katha’s rendering of the Epics are delightful to children of all ages.

Came across this rather interesting essay by A K Ramanujam on 'Is there an Indian way of thinking?' Quaint but nice! https://t.co/XVHgA4Hw4e

https://twitter.com/nileshs123/status/969843645540175872?s=19