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Spiritualists versus the Materialists in Ancient India

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

In India, philosophy had its origins in a search of relations between self and the universe, done by people who were religious in outlook. These were people less interested in the monotonous routines of the ritual sacrifices and more interested in probing relations between self and the universe.

Aitareya Upanishad

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

translated by Sri Aurobindo Chapter One. I. Section 1. Hari OM. In the beginning the Spirit was One and all this( universe) was the Spirit;  ; there was nought else that saw. The Spirit thought, “Lo, I will make me worlds from out my being”. 2.These were the worlds he made : ambhah, of the [...]