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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

How the Indian Darshna Means the Seer, the Observer of Knowledge and Wisdom not Just Lover of Wisdom

In this video, we share what, why and how the Darshna means the Seer, the Observer of knowledge and wisdom not just lover of it. This state is called being Drishta, the Seer and further the one, who can experience the real self, the Drishta and thus the Darshna. The word Seer seems further illustration so I have just added a video for it. The seer in the Indian Philosophy as the Darshan by no way seems to have anything to what it says in the words used the Divination

The word that is used for Divination in India is for the enlightened people, who many call the Brahmgyani. The Brahmgyani means the one, who know and understands how nature works in the Space. In the Gurbani, the Wisdom Tree of Enlightened Souls that Sikhs follow as well as many others calls it Gagan Mah Thaal, Ravi Chand Deepak Banne Tarika Mandal Janak Moti... that means that in the Space Our Universe is like a Plate of Worship in which the Sun, Moon and Group of Stars are as if the burning lamps.  

In other words, nature in the universe is as if we put something in a plate to worship. This is how the universes and their presence in the Space is. The come into existence and vanish as does stars and the moons. The person, who understands it well is called the Seer, the knowinger of the universe and the nature. For them, the universes are as if the bodies are like planets, moons, stars and all that is visible. So, they mostly worship the Invisible that we know as the Spirit

The live in this Truth and thus Observe Wisdom as product of creation that also created the nature and thus the natural laws and principles that govern both the universes and the nature in the form of life. For them, both the knowledge and the wisdom are activities at mental to spiritual level, the metaphysical and thus philosophy. 

They, the Seers live Philosophy and thus set an example rather than preaching it to exhibit the knowledge and wisdom. All they have been doing is using all of their observations of knowledge and wisdom for research only that is for the wellness and welfare, and thus the development in the evolutionary way of all. 

Thus, they cultivate observations and this very original experience is pure research work in the Indian Philosophy. For example, the people who developed Ayurveda were full of Practical Philosophy based on all that we have discussed leading all to their knowledge and wisdom having three levels:


1. Yoga in action of knowledge and wisdom

2. Meditation as activity of knowledge and wisdom

3. Research as origin of activity from the Spirit as observation of knowledge and wisdom



The Spirit in India is also known as the Atma (also spelled as Atman - with thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atman), which means the Self that has not even a trace of greed. Its a level when one does not have any greed so thus allowing the Spirit to work through the body as a vehicle or instrument. When the do any research their claim is that its not by them, but by the spirit. The word Spirit in broad sense is for Parmatma that is source of All Souls, the Atama .

Thus are the Vedas, Ayurveda, Shastras, Simirities, Puranas, and all other holy scriptures like the Holy Gita, Holy Ramayana and Shri Guru Granth sahib. They so claim it for the welfare of the natural world including humans that there is no such thing that makes one the owner, producer, seller of knowledge and wisdom. The sole aim is to serve selflessly. 

They earn butter and bread by work they do as professions rather than using research as something that earns all that one needs to live.




The following article looks inside into the importance of Indian Languages and its relation to the Classical Works like Music:

 Microsoft Word - Importance of Language and Music in Creative Communication



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Monday, August 22, 2011

God, Holy Spirit as the Shakti, Life, Nature: Concept of Philosophy, Religion, Name, Naam, Sound in Indian Civilization

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The Tenth Guru Nanak, Shri Guru Gobind Singh writes first God created the double edged sword (Negative and Positive), then the Universe. He created the play of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva(Humans). On His command Durga kill's all negative powers. In this context Durga is the power of the Angels to defeat the demons. The Guru is not interested in the medium of the Hindu Goddess, he is interested in the Shakti given to her by God, which is God's own power." (With thanks from the source: http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Chandi_Di_Var)


In the Japuji Sahib, Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji says: Kita Pasao Eko Kavao... means from one sound (the word) God created the world, the creation. It needs a little attention that the space always exists. It is matter of creation of life in the space or the creation of universe in which life exists. The Quantum Physics agrees that universe was created from sound, and thus the first of energy. This creation of life is creation of Shakti that further makes Creation gifted with all that we as humans understand. The word Shakti simply means Energy in both the living and the nonliving forms. The living ones have life, the Shakti in the invisible form though...

The nonliving things also have forms of energy that we know as Five Basic Elements, the Solid, Air, Fire, Water and above all Space. These cannot covert itself from one form to another without using the Shakti, the Energy. Thus, this form of energy that we call Shakti is living form. This is irony to say that God in Visible and Invisible forms are two. If we pinch our body and say that our invisible form feels pain in the invisible; it seems funny. Why? It seems that we need to consider what makes us known both the visible and the invisible, and all that occurs in it. Yes, its one...

This ONE has Trinity and that is not the point of one particular religion or faith. Its simply Science and follows the Dharma in its original form that we usually call Religion means understanding nature by being one with it. What does it mean to be ONE with nature and even GOD...

When one is ONE with ALL, it simply means realizing the self, the self-realization. Its very easy and yet very difficult when one considers Trinity as THREE different forms...

The Shakti, the living form of Energy is usually addressed as Holy Spirit in many religions as Holy Books, the Scriptures are having word Holy as the Prefix. The reason for it seems that most of the religions have feelings of great reverence and even worship the Spirit as the Shakti...


The Shkati obeys the command from God and thus it has nothing to do with any religion as such as in the Japuji Sahib Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji says it thus: Eka Mayi Jugti Viayi Tin Chele Parvan... means One Spirit Produces the Three Powers that are, the Power of Creation (Brahma), Power to Sustain (Vishnu) and Power to Give New Forms to Any Change Shakti Causes (Shiva). We in India know it well that Shiv means Shav, the Dead and Shiva as its Energy Gives Life to it, means to the Dead and that is why known as Shakti of the Shiv (the Shiva)...


These Powers and Energy are One and has nothing to do with how one understands it. The way to self-realization does not get affected by it. However, if one keeps these three not as ONE in mind one cannot focus or meditate and realize the self... up to these levels all is just science and philosophy... further there are six schools of philosophy that lead one to understand the ONE...

Nyaya, the school of logic,

Vaisheshika, the atomist school,

Samkhya, the enumeration school,

Yoga, the school of Patanjali (which provisionally asserts the metaphysics of Samkhya),

Purva Mimamsa (or simply Mimamsa), the tradition of Vedic exegesis, with emphasis on Vedic ritual, and

Vedanta (also called Uttara Mimamsa), the Upanishadic tradition, with emphasis on Vedic philosophy.

(With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_philosophy)...

Please note again that these are schools of philosophy and one enters into any of these school and gains the knowledge for self-realization that become the religion and or faith. However, all of these remain the Wisdom Tree...

Accordingly one gets the name as Sikh, Hindu, and all that one knows in sects and other forms. The doctrines do not disregard any philosophy as Fifth Nanak Shri Guru Arjan says (in Shri Sukhmani Sahib): Sagal Matant Kewal Harinam... means that At the End (the Conclusion) of All Religions, Faiths and Philosophies is the Name, Naam. This is the Eternal Sound to which word name is refereed as the source and thus the unstruck sound, the First Eternal Form of Energy that remains even when there is no universe (in the Void). This to what all salute...



In the Holy Gita, Lord Krishna asks Arjuna to leave all religious bonds that do not allow to perform the duty assigned to him...


The most of the diversification that we observe in the Indian Civilization is due to the Six Schools of Philosophy, and it has nothing to do how people perform the rituals and religious activities, the Karma Kanda. 

The people who abuse philosophy harm the bridge that Indians inherit as scientific and religious knowledge from all possible which are also practiced in the world as Classical Arts, Dances, Yoga, Astronomy, and several other forms of action for the pure and applied form of Philosophy. For example, the aborigines in India know when the Tsunami comes. It is the knowledge and wisdom based on the observations that many people whom many call illiterate learn all of it orally... we need their knowledge and wisdom and this very thing also carries the term Veda... means Practical Wisdom...

The differences present among the Six Schools of Philosophy does not constitute any ground to claim that religions and faith in India differ, however in the case of selection with choice of any school does not mean that one can claim that others seem wrong. At the end, all Six Schools have one thing common and that is what we know as the Divine Wisdom, the Brahmgyana, the Wisdom of the Divine. Its highly intuitive and have high discerning power without being dual in nature. 

Thus, the Hinduism is more close to Philosophy than as it seems blend of many religions, faiths and sects with ism. Accordingly, the divisions that we have as diversification as Sikh, Hindu or Buddhist does not reflect the Philosophical differences but the School of Philosophy.

The major question that has become so is what Indian Philosophy with its Six Schools and otherwise say about Name, Word, Sound. We usually read word Namah like Om Namah Shivaye or Om Shri Ganeshaye Namah. The word Namah means salute to the Visbile Form. Grammatically it salues to OM using word Ganesha or Shiva. However, the direct salute is Naman. This Naman is from within not physical in nature.

The word Sri or Shri is for the Shakti that Creates the visible and one salutes to it. However, when one salutes directly to the Invisible God, the Shakti or Living form of Energy gets hidden into her first form the Sound. The sound is form of Energy in the Space that we know as Word. We call this Word Akhar in Punjabi or Akshra in Hindi and the Sanskrit, which means that never perishes. So, the word and sound does not perish.

Now, the Namah and Shri emerge into One Sound and that is OM. It includes both Shri in it as it has Form of Energy as Word, and thus OM by itself has both forms, the word and the sound. However, the word Rama when recited does not have Shri or Namah in it. We have many names to salute to the Invisible form in the nonphysical or metaphysical way and that is known as Nama, Naam, Name, etc.

We usually address someone with polite words Sri Hari Ji. Now, the Shri is for the visible, a salute. The word ending with Ji is respect, the Namah, but what makes one react is the name Hari. If we call Hari, one immediately reacts or responds to it. God or OM in general remains hidden in the words like Rama, Krishna, Waheguru and others as these need just feelings of reverence. It is from our heart that we salute to them and thus usually avoid Shri and Namah.

If one does not understand why so. Its because we do call our self as Respected Mr. Hari Ji. The very thing is that Hari is our own SELF and that is why Self-realization. 


Now, some people who think that man cannot be God seem to assume that no man can assume to be God, and in this context its true that no man can be God, but we are talking or discussing about the oneness present among God, His Shakti, the Power of Creation that creates life within the universe. 

Even the universe is just a body in which we live due to presence of life at our planet Earth in the Solar system. The self is the real and body is just flesh that no longer remains as one dies (saying it that all perishes simply mean that everything that has birth meets death).

The Indian Philosophy does not have its name as derived from the Greek word Philosophy (With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy). Indian thinkers whom we also know as Sages, the Rishi's and Muni's called it the Darshna (With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_philosophy). 

In it, the Darshna means the Seer, the Observer of knowledge and wisdom not just lover of it. This state is called being Drishta, the Seer and further the one, who can experience the real self, the Drishta and thus the Darshna. The word Seer seems further illustration so I have just added a video for it. The seer in the Indian Philosphy as the Darshan by no way seems to have anything to what it says in the words used the Divination.


Well, we can understand it from this video: http://metaphysicsinlife.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-indian-darshna-means-seer-observer.html



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Friday, August 19, 2011

How and Why I Write about Metaphysics, World Peace and Global Issues: Role of Comparative Research Studies - A Real Life Time Works and Review

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How to Defend Peace and Resolve Conflicts among Ancient, Modern and the Contemporary Civilizations with the help of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Comparative Religious Studies has all of the posts and the articles that are based on my discussions with the Head, Department of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, Prof. Gill who replaced Prof. John as the Head in 1990. It also includes the discussions with other professors of Philosophy and Logic. It also includes many thesis works I have been submitting since then.

The richness that I received in this discussion and such articles also includes the discussions with Prof. Simpson from Physics, Human and Society, a subject that I studied in the First Year of B.Sc. (Math). Prof. Paul Davies, who is one of the most renowned writer and lecture in the Physics and Science in general was the Head, Department of Mathematics Science. His lectures also influenced me a lot.

The lecture that he delivered in 1990 described that all of the students in our class attended was on Nature, Big Bang and Humans dealing with it: "The hypothesis is that with scientific discipline and mathematics, human minds are able to progressively capture Nature's onion-like structure because that structure, which includes the structure of the mind itself, is basically mathematically regular (with lots of accidents). (With thanks from the source: http://www.edge.org/discourse/science_faith.html)



Paul DaviesImage via WikipediWhat I enjoyed most as well in 1990 was that he (his photo is on the right) was Head of the Department of Mathematical Science, I am proud to be his student as Paul Davies has worked a lot on this topic: "Paul Davies, professor of mathematical physics at the University of Adelaide, published God and the New Physics (Cambridge University Press 1984), only to receive a further (and unintended) boost from the sensational success of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (Oxford University Press 1988), a book that ends with the sentence, "If we find the answer [to the problem of a complete theory of the universe] . . . it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would truly know the mind of God." It was this comment that prompted Paul Davies to write The Mind of God (Heinemann 1992) in which he tries to prove logically and scientifically that God, or some sort of supreme being, must exist. Other writers have followed Davies's lead and tried to show that it might be scientifically possible for a God to intervene in the universe without breaking the laws of nature, while more recently Frank Tipler, in The Physics of Mortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead (Macmillan 1995), has tried to argue that the universe was created so that we could be here to observe it, and consequently that theology should be conceived as a branch of physics..." (With thanks from the source: http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Science.htm)

Personally Paul Davies is a very calm, humble and noble person as far as I know: "In 1990 Davies went to Australia when appointed as Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Adelaide. He held this position until 1993 when he became Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Adelaide. In 1998 he became a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland. In 2001 he became Adjunct Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie University, New South Wales having helped to found this Centre. In 2003 he married Pauline, a science broadcaster. He became College Professor and Director of Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, Arizona State University, in 2006. His efforts to communicate the latest ideas in science to a general audience have, particularly over the last ten years, made him a household name [1]:-

    He gives numerous public lectures each year throughout the world and has written twenty-seven books, both popular and specialist works, which have been translated into many languages. He writes regularly for newspapers, journals and magazines in several countries. Among Davies's better-known media productions were a series of 45 minute BBC Radio 3 science documentaries. Two of these became successful books and one, 'Desperately Seeking Superstrings', won the Glaxo Science Writers Fellowship. In early 2000 he devised and presented a three-part series for BBC Radio 4 on the origin of life, entitled 'The Genesis Factor'. His television projects include two six-part Australian series 'The Big Questions' and 'More Big Questions' and a 2003 BBC documentary about his work in astrobiology entitled 'The Cradle of Life'. ..." (With thanks from the source: http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Davies_Paul.html)

During my discussion about why the Philosophers and Thinkers have been ignored in our modern world, Prof. Gill said wisely that it is a mistake to ignore and that I need to write at least 15 books to prove that Philosophy is a Bridge between Science and Religion. Even then it would not be approved easily, he said in 1990 as my professor of Philosophy and the Head, Department of Philosophy.

I have written more than 50 books about role of philosophers and thinkers in our modern society as well its impact in great Civilizations in which great people like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle lived. This also includes what my father Prof. Harnek Singh has studied in Philosophy, Psychology, Divinity and so many other subjects in which he has great insight due to his in-depth studies.

He is an Arjuna Award Winner Sportsman of India, the Living Legend who has been the best Player of Volleyball of Asia (Asian Champion) and Decathlon Champion of India. He has retired from Government College of Physical Education, Patiala in 1994. Along with my elder sister, I live with him and my mother. My elder sister Jasvir Kaur has done B.A. in Classical Music and Dance, and M.A. in Classical Music. She is a very good singer and dancer in the Indian Classical's.

I must add that I sincerely started to listen to him and the books he recommended that includes Yoga as well. The first ever book that I read was well elaborated about What is Philosophy, but my interest was to bring Philosophy as practical in life rather than just making it knowledge. For this reason I decided in 1986 to give a new name to it as to blend Philosophy with Science, Religion and other branches of human knowledge and wisdom. So, the name was Philselfology. It was great opportunity to materialize this thought in the University of Adelaide.


After coming back to India in 1991, I continued these studies and thus is what I write and speak, delivering lectures. Let us start with and from Indian perspective. When we say Indian, its Indian Civilization not just a nation that we know as India (also Bharat or Hindustan). Whatever we share and discuss needs some sound grounds.

And thus I also learned Yoga and Meditation (without really knowing all about it when I was studying in Class of Grade 3, and won the Third Position in the State Level Championship in 1981), yes I learned all from my elder sister Kuldeep Kaur, who is C.P.Ed., B.P.ED, M.A. in Dramatic Arts and Media (Television in particular by then), B.Ed in Yoga from Punjab (Panjab) University, Chandigarh (a 2 years intensive course by then when she finished it). I have been teaching and tutoring yoga and meditation (concentration and focus) since then.

She remained State Yoga Champion and as well as Third in the National Yoga Championship. Later I studied more in got MD in Naturopathy and Yoga and also PhD in the same for Multiple Counseling named Philselfology that I use in my practice of Multiple Counseling here in Patiala at my home. Its focuses on the role of Comparative Research Studies.

The other person did the similar is my younger sister Noni Kaur, who is M.A. in Music and P.G. Diploma in Sanskrit (University Gold medalist in both). She has won many prizes in Music, Folk Arts and some others at State to National Level Youth Festivals held by and for the colleges and the universities. She has also been State Champion in Yoga Champion many times, and participant in the National Yoga Championship. She lives in Canada now from last more than 5 years.

Australian radio broadcasted a program named Music in the House of Milk based on our family life style in which we also have had dairy farm with cows, buffaloes along with some other pets from mid 70 to mid 2010's.

All of it has an impact on my works but English is my Third Language, the Punjabi being the First and the Hindi as the Second Language, and even though I studied ESL from Muirden Colleges (Muirden High and Senior Secondary Schools) at Adelaide in South Australia in 1989.


As we have discussed one of the main post relating to the above is: Why and How European, Indian and Greek Aristocracy Influenced World - Ancient and Modern Bodies of Governance

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