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HERMANN KUHN
SUTRAS
life we use Total Perception - and this is the very origin of the great discrepancy between individual life and science. 24
Once we begin to consciously employ Total Perception, it unfolds new dimensions of experience within us that are far more intense, interesting and fulfilling than a life mainly directed towards the accumulation of objects and bodily comfort.
24 The almost exclusive focus of the West on partial sights is caused by
science. Science splits the limited part of reality it recognizes into smaller parts, and then examines them in the light of narrow conditions. Many scientists engaged in this type of research are idealistically motivated that this approach will produce verifiable and valuable information about features and behavior of the examined objects.
There is basically nothing wrong with this approach. No doubt, science helped to make the physical conditions of life more comfortable and this also explains the popularity of this particular trend of thought. But unfortunately this success caused science to demand that all of reality should be explained by mechanisms that are valid only in the partial field of matter.
The propagation of this dogma is so successful that by now the majority of people accepts statements about the world only as true, when they are explained by the mechanics of matter. Though in daily life we constantly experience and use entirely different - non-material - mechanisms, this claim of science blocks the serious and systematic development of our far superior intuitive and innate capabilities already at the very start.
This overvaluation of the partial, analytical sight (naya) diverts our attention from our ability to effortlessly comprehend and handle the most complex of situations. It ignores the value and potential of pramana and thereby impedes our growth.
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