By Swami Krishnananda
This ebook meets an important call for of looking minds for a text-book at the metaphysics of a non secular view of life,which is going into center of it truly is questions and approaches and provides the wishes of the contemplative in addition to the sensible aspect of an earnest look for truth. This publication via respected Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj is a important consultant to the scholar in addition to the thinker of lifestyles, a realistic directive to seekers at the religious course alongside the strains of data. The paintings is completely dedicated to a dialogue and exposition of metaphysical aspect of philosophy and is meant to supply direct guidance within the greater reaches of thee non secular quest.
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This is often called the art of philosophic midwifery. (3) The establishment of correct concepts or definitions before trying to know their application in life’s particular instances. , adopting the inductive method of reasoning. The method of Socrates is also deductive in the sense that it draws out the consequences and implications of certain concepts and judges their validity. The analytical method of Socrates was followed by the synthetic dialectic of Plato, which concerned itself with discovering the causal relation between thought and being.
This shows that the real senses, the avenues of the perception of objects, are not the external organs of sense but certain internal forces which dissociate themselves from the physical body when one is in the state of dream. The fact that these forces responsible for the perception of the world are in conjunction with the body in the waking state explains sense-experience in waking life. And their disconnection from the body in the dreaming state accounts for the impossibility of having any physical experience in that state.
We do not know of a flow or a stream without assuming a permanent bed on which the flow or the stream can be possible. The self cannot be any kind of process, for every process is an object of knowledge. Any part or item of a process cannot itself be aware of the entire process. A process has a meaning only when it is known by a being which is not involved in the process but remains as its witness. The self is not analysable into further constituents, for anything that is subject to division is temporal and perishable.