Indian Philosophy As I See It
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Since the dawn of history, man has acted and looked upon himself in two different ways: Man as a social being and man as an individual being. But even till today he finds it difficult to bridge the gap between these two halves to create a new man - a total-being, a total which is more than the two halves. The chequered history of human evolution is perhaps at the heart of this wide gap between these two halves of Homo Sapiens. Man, the naked ape, was essentially an individual man, while man, the clothed hunter, was essentially a social man. Without being a social man he could not be an efficient hunter. Unfortunately, since then these two halves of man have remained leagues apart, frozen in two different time-slices,giving birth to the most contradictory phenomenon in nature - man himself.What is even more interesting is that in a certain way the two halves of human civilisation, East, especially India, and West, have specialised in dealing with only one half of the to be total-man, leaving the other half essentially untouched a classic, though often misunderstood, case of the international division of intellectual labour. This explains the constant flow of easterners rushing towards the west in search for material well-being, and a corresponding stampede of westerners towards the east in search of spiritual well-being. I shall try to explain this in terms the west understands the best, namely, the vocabulary of the market-place. The west has viable solutions to the problem of man as a social being, and the east, especially India, has viable solutions to the problem of man as an individual being. And the hordes of teachers and gurus, the modern spiritual- traders, are nothing but the same old barons in new guise,trying to exchange the commodity they have in surplus for the commodity they don't have at all. All the material commodities in the west put together are not able to create that one single spiritual commodity for which the modern man, trying to evolve into the total-man, is longing the most - inner happiness, peace, harmony, and balance. Unfortunately these very same spiritual commodities which India possesses in plenty cannot create even one loaf of bread for the hungry millions. So both the east and the west need to be joined into a single equation so that the total-man may be born. Now the question is what India has to contribute to this equation - to the birth pangs of the total-man?
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Rattan Man
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