Philosophy Science & Politics Where is the World Going? San Marcos University - NIOS 1 & 2 March 2007 Lima, Peru Part One: Philosophy & Science III Bharatiya-sanskriti.

PhilosophyScience

&Politics

Where is the World Going?

San Marcos University - NIOS

1 & 2 March 2007

Lima, Peru

Part One: Philosophy & Science

III Bharatiya-sanskriti - Festival of Classical Indian Culture

B. S. Damodara Swami

Dr. T. D. Singh

Hanumatpresaka SwamiH. H. Robinson

January 1948Guam, Marianas Islands

University of CaliforniaPsychology

Northwestern UniversityDonald T. Camplbell

Okinawa Black Belt

Bengali Vaisnava monk

Dr. T. D. SinghBhaktivedanta Institute

B. S. Damodara SwamiDr. T. D. Singh

ManipurThe Forbidden Kingdom

Manipur

FlowersSiroi LillyOrchids

AnimalsBrow Antler Dear

Origin of Polo

Manipur

Calcutta University – Chemistry

University of Buffalo

University of California

Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

B. S. Damodara SwamiDr. T. D. Singh

1984 Bombay1st World Congress for the Synthesis of Science and Religion

1990 San Francisco1st International Seminar on the Study of Consciousness in Science

1997 Calcutta2nd World Congress for the Synthesis of Science and Religion

Charles Townes

Nobel Prize - Laser

Sir John EcclesNobel Prize

Neurophysiology

George WaldNobel Prize -

Chemistry

Dalai LamaNobel Prize -

Peace

Paulos GregoriousPresident of

World Council of Churches

CONTENT

A Rapid Sanskrit Method Profesor George Hart, Universidad de California

Catalogus Catalogorum – 160,000

• Vastu-veda – Arquitectura• Ayurveda – Medicina• Yantra-vidhi – Mecánica• Jyotisha-veda– Astronomy, astrology• Gandharva-veda – Music, Dance, Drama• Danda-veda – Ciencias Políticas

• Sankhya – General Philosophy of Nature

Bhagavad-gītā 7.4bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuh

kham mano buddhir eva caahankara itīyam me

bhinna prakrtir astadha

Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intelligence and false ego — all

together these eight constitute My separated material energies.

Earth,

Water,

Fire,

Air,

Space,

Mind,

Intelligence

False ego

My separated material energies.

My separated material energies.

False ego - I am independent of God.

Intelligence – I know.

Mind - I think.

Space - I hear.

Air - I feel.

Fire - I see.

Water - I taste.

Earth - I smell.

Sankhya

Vision

Cream plane is front or back?

Faces or Vases?

• Carl Jung

Tavistock Lectures

Hopi Indians

• Black Poetess

SankhyaPSYCOLOGICAL

Ahankara – Ego Reflejado

Buddhi – Knowledge

Manas – Mind

SankhyaAhankara

Philosophy  • noun - the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.

ORIGIN - Greek philosophia ‘love of wisdom’. The Compact Oxford English Dictionary

TOMMORROW

Danda-veda -- Political Science, Social Philosophy

Classical Indian Philosophy can supply a Philosophy of Nature that integrates the study of physical, psychological, ethical and intuitive levels.

Continued study: Pada-padma, the first two cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam

Fundamental Questions

1. If the Sankhya is so great then why haven’t we heard about it before?

2. Can make a heaven on earth?

3. What about weapons for self defense?

4. What do the Scientists say about this?

A Well Kept Secret

Max MuellerColonialismo

Heaven on Earth

Psychotic CoreMichael Eigen, April 2004

Everyone is possessed of a fundamental narcissistic complex in which the self has become both the subject and object of its own erotic potency.

Mental hospital.Therapeutically perfect.

Weapons

Danda-veda,

Dhanur-veda,

Brahmastra-weapons,

Charles Townes

Political Science,

What do the Scientists say?

QUANTUM QUESTIONSKen Wilbur, Shambala, 1984

Albert EinsteinETHICAL DIMENSIONThe scientific method can teach us nothing else beyond how facts are related to, and conditioned by each other. The aspiration toward such objective knowledge belongs to the highest of which man is capable, and you will certainly not suspect me of wishing to belittle the achievements and the heroic efforts of man in this sphere. Yet it is equally clear that knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to knowledge of what should be.

INTUITION & MOTIVATIONThis knowledge of objective truth as such is wonderful, but it is so little capable of acting as a guide that it cannot prove even the justification and the value of the aspiration toward that very knowledge of truth. Here we face, therefore, the limits of the purely rational conception of our existence.Pg 106

What do the Scientists say?

Prince Louis de Broglie

INTUITION & MOTIVATIONThe great epoch-making discoveries of the history of science (think, for example, of that of universal gravitation) have been sudden lightening flashes, making us perceive in one single glance a harmony up untill then unsuspected, and it is to have, from time to time, the divine joy of discovering such harmonies that pure science works without sparing its toil or seeking for profit.Pg. 117

What do the Scientists say?

Prince Louis de Broglie

ETHICAL DIMENSIONIn the last chapter of his great work, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, Henri Bergson, having reached almost the end of his book, showed to us a humanity in the formidable grip of mechanism, and as if succumbing under the weight of the discoveries and inventions which the creative ability of its mind had been able to realize.Bergsen rightly says: Machines which move on petrol, on coal, hydro-electric power and which convert into motion the potential energies accumulated during millions of years, have given to our organism so vast an extension and so formidable a power, so disproportionate to its dimensions and strength, that surely it had never been foreseen in the plan of the structure of the species.

And wishing to make us appreciate the essential point and the disquieting side of the problem, he adds: Now, in this excessively enlarged body, the spirit remains what it was, too small now to fill it, too feeble too direct it. Now this increased body awaits a supplement of the soul, now the mechanism demands a mysticism.

Finally, the work finishes on these words, pregnant with meaning: Humanity groans half-crushed under the weight of the advances that it has made. It does not know sufficiently that its future depends on itself. It is for it, above all, to make up its mind if it wishes to continue to live.Pg. 122

What do the Scientists say?

Max PlanckI might put the matter in another way and say that the freedom of the ego here and now, and its independence of the causal chain, is a truth that comes from the immediate dictate of the human consciousness.Pg. 150

What do the Scientists say?

Werner Heisenberg(From his book, Wolfgang Pauli’s Philosophical Outlook)Very early in his career Pauli had followed the road of skepticism based in rationalism right to the end, and he then tried to trace out those elements of the cognitive process that precede a rational understanding in depth.Pg 158

Wolfgang Pauli

Werner Heisenberg

What do the Scientists say?

Sir Arthur EddingtonWhat is the truth about ourselves? Various answers suggest themselves. We are a bit of stellar matter gone wrong. We are physical machinery, puppets that strut and talk and laugh and die as the hand of time pulls the strings beneath. But there is one elementary inescapable answer. We are that which asks the question. Whatever else there may be in our natures, responsibility towards truth is one of its attributes. This side of our nature is aloof from the scrutiny of the physicist. I do not think it is sufficiently covered by admitting a mental aspect of our being. It has to do with conscience rather than consciousnessPg 178

What do the Scientists say?

Sir Arthur EddingtonThe materialist who is convinced that all phenomena arise from electrons and quanta and the like controlled by mathematical formulae, must presumably hold the belief that his wife is a rather elaborate differential equation, but he is probably tactful enough not to obtrude this opinion in domestic life. If this kind of scientific dissection is felt to be inadequate and irrelevant in ordinary personal relationships, it is surely out of place in the most personal relationship of all, that of the human soul to the divine spirit.Pg 207