Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
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philosopher is to develop a method for the realisation of Reality as well as an appropriate logic to explain it. Krishnachandra's method of philosophizing at best can be called "a method of cognitive inwardising."16 This method involves an analysis of the subject or different grades of human subjectivity. It enables one to go deeper from the surface to the deeper levels of existence and ultimately reveals the subject which is ultimate and free from all change and duality. The method of 'Neo Vedantic Conception of Philosophizing' culminates in the attainment of spiritual consciousness or intuition. At this stage man realizes himself as essentially free from all traces of objectivity. The goal of philosophy is reached when man attains spiritual consciousness and realises himself as subject and as free from all objectivity.
Krishnachndra conceives different grades of cognitional freedom. He proceeds to analyze the nature of the subject and explains bodily subjectivity, psychic subjectivity and spiritual subjectivity. Man realises freedom when he attains spiritual subjectivity. The spiritual progress of man lies in the growing realisation of the higher and higher grades of subjectivity. It results in the growing realisation of man's freedom. Krishnachandra observes, "spiritual progress means the realisation of the subejct as free.”17
The method of 'Neo Vedantic Conception of Philosophizing' attempts to dissociated the subject from the object This ultimately results in the complete freedom of the subject from its relations to the object. "The subject", according to Krishnachandra, "is thus known by itself, as not meant but speakable and not as either related or relating to the object. It is, however, believed as relating to object and symbolised as such by objective relations. The modes of relating are at the same time the modes of freeing from objectivity, the forms of the spiritual discipline by which, it may be conceived, the outgoing reference to the object is turned backwards and the immediate knowledge of the I as content is realised in an ecstatic intuition."18 The realisation of self as free involves a specific activity of the subject. There is a demand for some kind of activity of the subject towards itself. There is the demand that the subjective function of knowing which is only believed and not known as fact has to be known as the self evidencing reality of the subject itself Krishnachandra says, "This would be the supreme method of cognitive inwardising." In the process of self-realisation, one has to recognize a specific discipline or consecutive method of activity for such realisation. The consciousness of perfection, freedom or salvation as the end is to them a demand for some kind of activity of the subject towards itself. Philosophical method involves the cult of the subject It also involves an awareness of the subject as what the object is not. Krishnachandra observes, "The specific activity demanded is primarily in the inwardising direction."20 Further he observes,
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