World of Philosophy

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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as devine. In their daily Puja (ritual) performed before taking any food, they worship the Sun, Moon, Stars, Planets, Cow etc. and offer water to Tulasi plant and Pipal tree. They offer a part of their, food as 'Naivedya' (which are consumed by the different creatures) before taking each meal and regard vegetarianism as a 'Punya' (virtue). It is cheifly because the value-based basically spiritualistic Philosophy in India, which was first lived by the propounder himself before preaching, has a mass acceptance, support and participation unlike the highly intellectual research-oriented thoughts of the west miserably lacking moral fervour and spriritualistic dedication. But it is to be noted that the emmerging global society is showing serious concern in this regard and has engaged itself in finding out the curative measures for this deeply penetrated grave malady of atmospheric-pollution and worsening ecological-balance, which is taking the shape of a global-movement day by day. The declaration of Stockhome International Conferance on environment, with the participation of fifty countries, including India in 1972, the Belgred Conference in 1975, the Narobe Conference in 1982 etc. are welcome-steps in this regard. But the task is so gigantic that these efforts seem to be like digging the Himalayas with a few blunt pins. If the global community is actually serious about the eradication of this most dangerous problem challenging the very existence of man-kind owing to uncared industrialization, urbanization, arms-race etc. based on the anti-spiritualistic and antemoralist attitude of the modern science, it has to appreciate and embibe the most valuable contribution of Indian thought regarding its dedicated devotion towards maintaining atmospheric-purity and ecological-balance which they have been unfortunately dismissing as utopian myth and should accept these value-oriented, thoughts as the paradigm of environmental and ecological ethics.
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