Electricity is everywhere, it is woven into the fabric of our daily lives. Nikola Tesla shown with an early tesla coil generating a strong electric field In late 1895, Swami Vivekananda expressed his intention to meet with Nikola Tesla, aiming to explore the convergence between Vedantic cosmology and modern science. Vivekananda hoped Tesla's work would confirm that matter is just …
Vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday raised concerns over what he described as “baffling” and “painful” reactions to references to Sanatan and Hindu, calling it evidence of a “perverted colonial mindset.” Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. Speaking at the 27th International Congress of Vedanta at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Dhankhar criticised the lack of understanding of India’s intellectual heritage and urged greater …
The current year marks the quarter-millennial anniversary of the birth of Raja Rammohun Roy. In order to get the drift of public opinion on Raja Rammohun Roy’s life and works, when one surveys the present-day mainstream media, as well as the supposedly more democratic social media platforms, one feels compelled to take statements like “already much has been said about …
Dhruv S Kaji’s book, ‘Vedanta Vignettes’, contains a selection from the notes, articles, and discussion papers written by him over a period. Though Kaji rightly says that atman is brahman, the two are identical, yet he erroneously upholds that brahman is “the world which we individuals confront” and that “brahman is the common reality behind the ‘Not I’ ; Vyavaharika …
The old house on Luz Avenue at Mylapore in Chennai has a what-you-see-is-what-you-get air about it. Or would you say that as neuroscience continues to discover more and more of what's happening in the human mind or the brain, philosophy will recede and be painted into a corner? So what many of us scientists do is look at patients with …
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