There is much discussion, debate, and even controversy about yoga these days. But what is yoga? First of all, it is far more nuanced than the typical image of a...
Hinduism is one of the major world religions with a following of over a billion people spread across all over the globe but largely concentrated in India. Some...
5 If we leave out what was described above as 'survival values', there is the important distinction between empirical or secular and spiritual values. The latte...
4 We have hitherto spoken of the different values using, for the most part, modern terminology. The Indian terms for them are not precisely their equivalents: b...
3 We have distinguished between higher and lower values. That is, the conception of value involves not only the distinction between good and bad, but also that...
2 We have stated that the realisation of value is preceded by a definite awareness of it. This constitutes a very important difference between man and the lower...
The following essay (which will be published in five parts) is taken from the introduction to the book Indian Conception of Values by Prof. M Hiriyanna (Mysore:...
The Western tradition uses the word ‘philosophy’ (love of wisdom) to denote the study of the fundamental nature of reality. In the Indian tradition, we use the...
“Who am I?” This question has haunted thinkers and philosophers from the earliest times. It is the question that drove the sixteen-year-old Venkataraman to even...
The Geeta exposition is essentially contained between the words 'अशोच्यान्' (BG 2.11) and 'मा शुच:' (BG 18.66). The central message is quite simply ‘grieve not’...
Bhaja Govindam is a popular poem attributed to the scholar-saint Adi Shankara, one of the foremost advocates of the Advaita Vedanta School of philosophy. A shor...
अभिमानदम्भादिकं त्याज्यम् । ६४ 64. Abandon pride, hypocrisy, etc. तदर्पिताखिलाचारः सन् कामक्रोधाभिमानादिकं तस्मिन्नेव करणीयम् । ६५ 65. Having offered all activi...