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Experience and truth

By hipkapi October 9, 2022 Balagangadhara, experience, psychology, truth

Of course, you can use Kant (or anyone other philosopher of your liking) to talk about what experience is. But if you use these thinkers (of the last 1000 years…

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How about speaking the truth about reservations?

By hipkapi October 14, 2015 Balagangadhara, experience, interests, published, reservations, swarjyamag

[Published on  Swarajya magazine Oct 14, 2015] What happens to the future of Indian intellectual scene when most of projects driven by its intelligentsia propagate perverted truths for self-seeking purposes?  “Satyam Vada,…

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How to access Indian traditions?

By hipkapi April 21, 2012 Balagangadhara, colonial consciousness, enlightenment, experience, Indian traditions, knowledge

1. As I have often said, the most intriguing aspect of the Indian culture is the kind of knowledge it produced and encouraged people to produce: experiential knowledge which emerges…

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Is Maya an Illusion? Nonsense sold by Scholars!

By hipkapi September 23, 2011 Balagangadhara, experience, ignorance, Indian traditions

According to your account, Vedanta claims that the world is an illusion and that only the Brahman is real. 1. If the world is an illusion, Vedanta has to deny…

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Achievements of Indology: Esoteric Indian traditions

By hipkapi March 21, 2011 Balagangadhara, enlightenment, experience, indexical, Indian traditions, psychology

A science of cultures is not Atmagyaana or Brahmagyaana. Let me also add that I find a quest for happiness a normal human striving. According to the Indian traditions, experience…

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What is Anubhava? III

By hipkapi March 17, 2011 Balagangadhara, experience, explication, psychology

1. Let us retain the translation of ‘Anu’ as ‘appropriate’ or ‘apt’. Let us emphasize the active dimension of the word ‘Bhava’ to translate it as ‘coming into existence’. (‘Existence’…

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What is experience? I

By hipkapi March 17, 2011 Balagangadhara, experience, psychology

The biggest issue is: what is experience? All the Indian traditions have been busy with answering this question. But both posing this question and answering it are themselves experiential, as…

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What is experience? IV

By hipkapi March 17, 2011 Balagangadhara, colonial consciousness, experience, ignorance, psychology

1. If we take our English language use as a reference point, it appears as though we can speak sensibly about experiencing our feelings (‘I experience sadness’), experiencing thoughts (‘I…

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What is experience? II

By hipkapi March 17, 2011 Balagangadhara, experience, psychology

1.1. Let us begin with the word “Anubhava”, which we use to translate the English word “experience”. There are two sub-words here: Anu and Bhava. ‘Anu’ can be translated as…

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Is maaya an illusion? Is maaya real? Does maaya exist?

By hipkapi March 17, 2011 Balagangadhara, experience, Indian traditions

According to your account, Vedanta claims that the world is an illusion and that only the Brahman is real. If the world is an illusion, Vedanta has to deny the…

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