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Since its first publication A study of Time in Indian philosophy has been acclaimed as having successfully shown the simple falsity of such clichés that the Indian view of time is cyclic or that it is exclusively illusory. Given the variety of views discussed in this work it is evident that the theme of time is intimately related to such basic concepts as being and becoming change and causality creation and annihilation. It has been therefore observed that ...
The volume explores the many facets of the I-consciousness that pervades the states of sleep, dream and wakefulness that encompasses our lives and makes a person view his life as different from the lives of others. It studies the notion of I-consciousness as found in different strands of philosophical thought in India and the West. Referring to the Upanishadic tradition, the Buddhist tradition and others, it addresses the paradox of permanence and mutability of ...
The main theme of discussion in this book is cross-cultural understanding, but it touches upon other vital issues like the role of philosophy and the gender question. Of obvious interest to philosophers, this booklet is bound to charm the gender reader as much as the historian, the sociologist, and the anthropologist. Significant in terms of insights, it is of deep human interest.