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Dr. Kalghatgi states that philosophy begins in speculation; it may be even truer to say that the first step in philosophy is not really a step; if step at all it is, is as simple as opening one's eyes. What is at the core of Indian thought, as one can see from Sankara, is not so much knowledge as wisdom, not so much logical learning as spiritual progress. This is what Rajaji said so pithily: knowledge when it matures and is stabilised in the intellect becomes wisdom. Will Durant lamented that knowledge today no longer generates wisdom, he is in the pitiable situation of more and more people knowing more and more about less and less, and less people knowing less and less about more and more."
The computers so far in common use only piled up information quantitatively under the load of which human knowledge, itself splitting up earlier into a thousand isolated fragments; no quantitative analysis seems possible of this huge pile which has accumulated. This has added a new dimension to what the Cambridge philosophers had done, bringing philo. sophy to the brink of extinction by rendering it "important non-sense". If logical syntax, even at the higher levels of discussion, has led philosophy to a blind alley, even the epochmaking Chomeskean contribution to linguistics has not helped appreciably to repair the damage thus done. One has really to go back to the “Sarvavıdya Pratisja" of the Mundaka Upanisad, the true spiritual perception (Darsana) which the six systems of Hindu Philosophy gave us Dr. Kalghatgi sincerely laments that pure speculative efforts at philosophising has led us to an impassee from which we cannot escape
Right knowledge involves right understanding The Mjmāthsakas have taught us that the right answer cannot be got except by posing the right question It is not mere syncreticism (samanya) that can help; we heed a proper synthesis (saman. vaya). If mokşa is the commonly sought for end of life it could not even be understood as mere release. Today's psychological understanding is that mere "freedom from" cannot by itself lead to "freedom to"; this was explained by the greatest Westera
