Tulsi Prajna 1996 07

SR No.: 524588
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1996
Total Pages: 204
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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general and Indian tradition in particular, are recognized for the expansion of the faculty of human consciousness into advaitic perfection through self-reflection and the development of self-awareness. As the historian G.C. Pande, observes that "there has been a persistent tendency in the west to create all-inclusive authoritarian structures," e.g., the polis among Greeks, the church in the Middle Ages and the state as a nation or party today. He observes that a liner view of history is one of the consequences of this attitude. Unlike the Indian tradition which maintains a deep faith in the simultaneity of time and the peaceful co-existence of heretic faiths and belief systems, the western heroic tradition has held its own ideology and beliefs as the only valid perception of truth worthy of propagation and expansion. Thus Alexender sought to hellenize the world and the Romans romanized it, and similarly in the recent past, Christians have tried to christianize it, now the same tendency is seen through the propagation of scientific rationalism especially in the attempt to modernize the third world countries
This expansionist tendency condemns the vast prehistoric and archical traditions as primitive simply because they are economically backward "as if wealth and intellectual attainment alone give mcaning and value to life.” Such a journey of expansion is in fact, a movement of history on the same horizontal scale where apart from heroic adventurism and rising standards of a comfortable living, no significant break-through in terms of a qualitative change of human consciouness bas been made. The tendency to infinitize on the horizontal scale in contemporary modern society is best expresed by dilemma to use Daniel Bell's words, between "beyond" and the "limits." Modern man as rires to go beyond" everything beyond tragedy." "beyond death", beyond culture." "beyond morality" and so on, but is always confronted with the limits of scale,” ie..
limits to growth," limits to comprehension," "limits to resources, and many more other kinds of astringent constraints.
The transcendence or the infinitization of man in terms of an expanding consciousness or self-awareness, i.e., his growth as a value-seeking-being constitutes his vertical expansion Max Scheler 6 in propounding his model of Buddhist sociology had recogoized this fact and had tried to comprehend human reality as a dimnsion spreading between the absolute unity of spirit to the concrete diversities of material life To Scheler a higher value is that which is less dependent upon material goods, more holistic, less quantifiable in contents and deeper and more enduring is the fulfilment it yields.