Elusive Consciousness

Author(s): Narendra Bhandari, Surendrasingh Pokharana, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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be also looked in the same manner. A question to be raised in the present context is why these phenomena occur during higher stages of consciousness and how they are related with actual properties of consciousness and its evolution.
This series of lectures is a small beginning in the direction of understanding the concept of consciousness from various perspectives. Right at the outset, we wish to state that we want to keep our scope of research quite broad. On one hand we wish to explore this concept from a scientific perspective and on the other, we wish to emphasise that a large number of mystic phenomena recorded in the breadth and length of the country should be properly explored, not necessarily in the scientific perspective only but also from more open frontiers of exploration, which goes beyond the space-time invariance conditions of the modern science. It might be necessary to think of totally new concepts and ideas. New types of experiments are required to understand the concept of consciousness and spirituality.
We wish to mention that these are just lecture notes and are so written in different formats. We have tried to organize them in a proper way and standardized them, but many issues are there which will be handled later. Thus references are not properly mentioned. Some papers in the process of editing and making them simple, some mathematical rigor has been left out. Thus in paper of Dr Agarwal, we have completely dropped all mathematical details (almost full paper and taking only introduction), but have kept the reference list and gave only introduction part for the knowledge of general readers. Other such errors may be there which may be excused.
Acknowledgement:
The idea of generating a group at Ahmedabad to discuss the work going on in the field of consciousness in the modern science and that in Indian philosophy was generated during a meeting of a committee constituted by the Bhagwan Mahavir International Center for Scientific Research and Social Innovative Studies, JVBI, Ladnu, Nagaur (Rajasthan), India. It was held at their Koba center in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The editors are grateful to their organizers for encouragement and this initiative.