Category: Hegelian Philosophy

DIALECTICAL SPIRITUAL REALITY

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.This is a reply to this message posted in the group. S Srinivasan wrote on Mar 27:>This is  in reference to the following sentence found in your mail: "*Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu harmonized this… more »

Dialectical Reason and Limitation of Mathematics

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.Manoranjan Swain wrote on Mar 24:I have read the recent issue of Harmonizer 2010. I have found the article “AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF SUBJECTIVITY” By Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.… more »

Principle of the Unity of Universal and Individual

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.   I appreciate the contributions to this discussion made by the various members of this forum. It is not unexpected but still disappointing that the philosophical basis behind the issue of religi… more »

The Harmonizer: March 2010

Dear Members:   Please click this linkhttp://mahaprabhu.net/satsanga/?download=Harmonizer_March_2010.pdf to open the March 2010 issue of our Monthly Newsletter “The Harmonizer - Science, Philosophy, Religion and Art are all branches of the same tree… more »

What is Religion? - Part 2

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. REALITY IS PERSONAL FOR RELIGION–SUBJECT, NOT MERELY SUBSTANCE more »

What is Religion? - Part 1

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. THE WORLD IS PRODUCED In his landmark paper of 1964, “Two Kinds of Reality,” physicist Eugene Wigner noted that the content of consciousness was the primary reality, and the physical world secondary.… more »

MAYA

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.Several of our subscribers requested further clarification on the concept of Maya . PROCRUSTIAN MENTALITY One subscriber to this list proposed that scientists are not obliged to respect the dict… more »

Theology, Epistemology and Ontology

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.Bhaktivedanta Institute Dear Dr. Ashwini Otta, Your comments are quite appropriate. The view point of our Bhaktivedanta Institute is that science is an essential part of knowledge. The e-magazine we… more »

The Concept (Soul) in Living Organisms

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.Bhaktivedanta InstituteIn addition to any content, another essential element must be the order or form of that content. Content implies a container. Generally, the container is not thought of as having… more »

Rebirth and Subjective Evolution

by Sushen Krishna Das, Ph.D.Bhaktivedanta Institutewww.mahaprabhu.net/satsangajaga.suresh@gmail.comMob: +91-9748906907This article is a response to this message.Dear Professor Thippur V. Sreenivas:Thank you for your question on evolutio… more »

Destiny and Freedom (moksha)

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.Bhaktivedanta InstituteDear Prof. Koria,You have presented some very thoughtful questions to the group. I would like to try to answer them.You wrote: I would love to know what is destiny I have come… more »

Plurality of 'I'

by Sushen Krishna Das, Ph.D.Bhaktivedanta Institute www.mahaprabhu.net/satsanga jaga.suresh@gmail.comMob: +91-9748906907This article is a response to this message.Dear Lopsact:Certainly the sense 'I am' is a reality that eternally exists… more »

"I" is an Infinitessimal Part of the Absolute

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.Bhaktivedanta InstituteDear LOPS,If we are to abide by your philosophy that all theories begin and end with "I," then we will have to necessarily conclude that not only is this is your own personal th… more »

Wholeness, Space, Time and Subtle Matter

bySripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D.Bhaktivedanta InstituteDear Dr Sushen Krishna Das,Thank you for your very respectful message and questions.You wrote: I want to know some practical examples about how "The Organic Whole produces org… more »

Do we have a Theory of Evolution?

Dr A Balasubramanian wrote (Dec. 9, 2009):But when there is a mutation, how do you account for the creation of a new species?Obviously the mutated one should have come from the parent species. This concept is not well understood and needs more in dep… more »

VEDANTIC CONCEPTION OF THE ORIGIN OF LIFE

VEDANTIC CONCEPTION OFTHE ORIGIN OF LIFEby Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. The first aphorism of Vedanta-sutra states that we must inquire into our true nature as spirit (atatho brahma jijnasa). Vedanta-sutra advises… more »