I wish to add few lines of comments on this post. 1. Please understand that devout hindu's believe krishna itself ( not himself) is an avatara (manifestation)...
Dear Ramasesha, ... I think this 'intuitive' method is pretty overrated. It has its place in the scheme of things but it cannot be used to void every other ...
... I'm very glad that Balu even provides the possibility that the answer is "Nothing". That accumulated junk that Balu talks about in his Louvain lecture...
Dear Arun, I am glad that you are glad, but glad too for yet another reason: Occam's razor, thankfully, is a mere philosophical thesis that guides us in...
ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS RETHINKING RELIGION IN INDIA 24 – 27 JANUARY 2008 DELHI, INDIA www.cultuurwetenschap.be/conferences Increasingly, it is felt...
You say: " - how do you confirm that this particular intuition will not be negated by another future intuition?? Can we say the same of non-intuition: - how do...
Question to the group - in terms of economic and technological development, Japan is perhaps a century ahead of India. Is there any value in trying to learn...
a review of the book http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=6143576f-aaaa-4da3-b068-6691760b8031&&Headline=Trespassers+will+be+persecuted ...
Dear Avinash, ... There are but two options for both intuitive or non-intuitive experiences – 1. one experience can contradict another 2. one experience...
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~moraes/illusion.html (a) I see the image as rotating. (b) No b. (c,d) In reality, the image is not rotating. (a) the intuitive...
Dear arun, How come? are you saying you don't 'see' the image rotating? how is it an illusion then? it should be this way - (a)i 'see' the image rotating and i...
It has been hypothesized here before that the knowledge produced in the Western culture is predominantly 'theoretical' while the kind of knowledge produced in...
Dear Sunil, Depending on the scope of the word 'experience', one could go either way. Consider (a) when a stick is immersed in water, it appears bent; (b)...
I think Balu has explained it in a later note. The problem I feel there is in your line of thinking is that on examination the line between judgment and ...
The experience of the enlightened is not masked; that is, it is not structured by prior beliefs, prior actions, prior theories, etc. In this case, we can say,...
... It ultimately leads to the conclusion that *experiences* form the basis of judgment of real or unreal. it is a genus of which reality and unreality are...
Dear Balu, ... or not. The point of upajivya virodha is that experiences are all data-points that form the 'basis' of judgment of real or unreal. no two...
Dear Avinash, ... My point was intuitive knowledge, whatever it may be, cannot 'negate' pratyaksha, as many believe indian traditions advocate. I was...
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