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Item Code: IDE704by Manoranjan BasuHardcover (Edition: 2005)Indica Books, Varanasi ISBN 8186569510 Language: English Size: 8.9" X 5.8" Pages: 606 |
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times since 2nd Oct, 2008The purpose of this work is to carve out a path for achieving the integration of man, a multi-dimensional being, in the background of the three worlds - physicality, psychicality and spirituality. These three worlds are the different facets of man as a multi-dimensional being. His body is an extended substance of the physical world, his mind or inner self belongs to the psychical and moral world, and when man rises above his body and mind to realize the ultimate truth, he enters into the spiritual world. Full fledged evolution of all these facets makes a man perfect. He then realize that the said three worlds are linked together like gems on a strings. In this work the author has tried to analyse the said three worlds and bind them into an integrated whole.
Experts Review:
"For this book the relevant questions is : What is the universe and why? So far scientists engaged in this field of investigation occupied themselves seriously with the answering of the what part of the question and have just started to answer the why part, which should normally engaged the philosophers. But the latter, barring a few, are not fully equipped to go deep into the what part revealed by the scientists. The gap has to be filled up. Sri Basu has taken courage to bring the what and why parts in one comprehensive volume, and try to answer both. In fact modern science and philosophy are perhaps talking about the same thing but in different languages. The attempt to bridge the language gap is what is most important."
Dr. Sushil Kumar Mukherjee
About the Author:
Sri Manoranjan Basu (1920-1992), the author of this profound work, was not only a scholar of great attainments but also a researcher and sadhaka of no mean stature. Among his several learned publication are Gita Vahini; Tantras: A General Study; Ramakrishna's Spiritual Practices: A Study; Ramakrishna Sadhan Parikrama (in Bengali), Paschatya Darsaner Itihas : Kant and Hegel (in Bengali) and, above all, Fundamentals of the Philosophy of Tantras.
| Acknowledgement | 7 | |
| Preface (Science) by Dr. Sushil Kumar Mukherjee | 9 | |
| Introduction | 19 | |
| PART I : SCIENCE | ||
| Section A: | Western Science and the Physical Universe | 39 |
| 1. | Sense Perception of Physical Phenomena - Its Limitations | 40 |
| 2. | Laws of Nature - Theories of Creation According to Western Science | 53 |
| 3. | Quantum and Beyond: Gluons and the Grand Unification | 66 |
| 4. | The Universe of Stephen Hawking - Modern Advanced View of Physics | 85 |
| 5. | Concluding Note on the Physical Science | 102 |
| Section B: | The Indian Vision of the Physical Universe | 107 |
| 1. | Concept of Body - Some Indian Theories | 109 |
| 2. | Theory of Creation-cum-Manifestation According to Indian Philosophical Concepts | 117 |
| Section C: | The Body, the Mind and the Unconscious | 140 |
| 1. | Life - Its Nature, Origin and Evolution | 141 |
| 2. | Journey into the Brain and the Mind | 191 |
| 3. | Living Organisms - An Integrated Approach | 228 |
| 4. | Psychology of the Unconscious | 245 |
| 5. | Passage from Science to Consciousness | 254 |
| PART II : CONSCIOUSNESS | ||
| 1. | Consciousness - A General Discussion | 263 |
| 2. | Religious Consciousness | 272 |
| 3. | Kundalini or Embodied Consciousness: A Scientific Exposition | 285 |
| 4. | Tantras: Analysis of Consciousness | 302 |
| 5. | Notion of Consciousness and the Integral Consciousness of Sri Aurobindo | 323 |
| 6. | Advaitic View of Consciousness | 333 |
| 7. | Absolute and Modified Consciousness - Advaitic and Other View Points | 343 |
| PART III : FREEDOM | ||
| 1. | Freedom - Introduction | 401 |
| 2. | Freedom - A General Discussion | 402 |
| 3. | Freedom - Existential Point of View | 441 |
| 4. | Freedom - Liberation / Renunciation According to Indian Views | 471 |
| Prelude to the Conclusion | 557 | |
| Conclusion | 558 | |
| Bibliography | 587 | |
| Index | 595 | |
| About the Author | 605 | |
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