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Dr. D. S. Kothari holds: "Two things are important. Firstly, the duality of the two worlds, and secondly the question of the interaction between them. The 'external world and the internal world', that is to say the 'atom' and the ‘self' should be accepted as equally significant for human life, the two equally real”. (Atom & Self. p. 7). "The external world is public, objective. It includes of course the world of body. The internal world is the world of psyche- 'I; self, spirit, soul, mind whatever we may call it. It is private subjective, thoughts, feelings, emotions, pleasure and pain, purpose, goals. All these belong to the internal world”. (Ibid. p. 7) The noted scientists like shroedinger and Wigner hold the same view. Wigner writes—"There are two kinds of reality or existence-- the existence of my consciouness and the reality or existence of every thing else. This latter reality is not absolute, but only relative. Excepting immediate sensations, the content of my consciousness, every thing is a construct”. (Ibid, p. 8) Martin Luther king, a spiritualist and revolu.. tionary leader of America writes—"Every man lives in two realms, the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in arts, literature, morals and religion. The external is that of divices, techni. ques, mechanisms and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Our problem today is that we have allowed the internal to become lost in the external. We have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live.” (Where do we go frome here : chaos or community ? p. 171), Saint Vinoba Bhave--an absolute idealist also holds that the Absolute or Brahman has two of its aspects-the one is that which is unthinkable, unmanifest and abstract and the other is conceivable, manifest and concrete. The one is its inner aspect and the other its outer aspect. The empirical world is its perceptual aspect. (Gandhivad Ko Vinoba Ki Den, by Dashrath Singh, 1975 p. 119). Ishāvāshya Upanisad very condidly speaks of
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