Tulsi Prajna 1993 04

SR No.: 524575
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 162
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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of perception is defined as unawareness of the truth, the fact, and awareness of the false, the distorted fact. All crises in the external field-for example, a crisis in health care, crises of pollution and other environmental disasters, a rising wave of violence and crime, and so on are all different facets of the inner crisis of perception. It is an unprecedented crisis which has global dimensions.
We gather fragmentary experience and partial knowledge and store these as memory or cultural belief structure. Rational knowledge is thus a system of abstract -concepts and symbols, characterized by the linear, sequential structure which is typical of our thinking and/or speaking. It leads to symbolic-dualistic knowledge. The symbols are not the actual. In worshipping a symbol you will lose the real, the truth. David Bohm emphasised the need to look on the world as an undivided whole, in which all parts of the universe, including the observer and his instruments, merge and unite in one totality. He concludes, "The new form of insight can perhaps be called Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement".2 When one deals with the wholeness of life-both the "within" (inner world) and the "without" (external world)-it is called spirituality. We define spirituality as the science of life which explores the inner dynamics of the conditioned human mind-brain system and the outer time-space matrix. Wholeness, Smuts said, "is a fundamental characteristic of the universe-the product of nature's drive to synthesize". "Holism is self-creative and its final structures are more holistic than its initial structures". Smuts said, "There is a whole-making principle in mind itself... Evolution has an ever-deepening, inward spiritual character". Roger Sperry wrote, "When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and the right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres". He added, "When parts come together in a new whole, this new whole exhibits features-emergent properties that can't be predicted as a rule from the parts, and
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