The Philosophy of India

About the philosophy I’m reading, it was such a tremendous rush for my one sided brain, crammed with the wonders of scientific inquiry and the “miracles” of science and technology obtained through books, encyclopedias, news paper articles, the discovery channel, the BBC nova and horizon, national geographic etc. I realized that I had dedicated all my life starting from my high school days in selective study of all things which are logical and scientific as described by our current school of thought on what is scientific. I had completely rejected my religion as being unable to explain anything logically. let alone elucidate that stupendous claim for an explanation of the “truth”.

About science, it’s only recently that I discovered that all along (like the erstwhile Roman catholic church), we have still been operating in a ruthless narrow minded investigation of nature. We were limited by our own physical makeup - Our sense organs. We are unable to transcend our human limitations in our study of things. When you think of it, how could we? So is modern day science becoming a dogma and modern day scientist’s fundamentalists? The dictionary describes the word science as “the study of the physical world and its manifestations, especially by using systematic observation and experiment”. A vast amount of what we term scientific knowledge is still speculations, agreed upon by a sizable number of scientists with authority on the subject. Acceptability is solely based on verifiability and repeatability. Thus for ages we have been sticking to pushing under the rugs, things that does not conform to our narrow perception of what is scientific truth. We stand just steps away from burning at the stake, people with alternate ideas derived from non conforming means. We gracefully sweep alternate explanations of what science has not explained under the rug. Like an embarrassed house wife in the presence of guests. We neatly label such people as eccentrics and probable lunatics. In lesser refined cultures of the west such ideas would be termed blasphemous and the practitioners heretics and occultists.

It seems too soon, but fundamental science has already reached the upper threshold of credibility from its methods. Quantum mechanics has accumulated several idiosyncrasies generated by its most fantastic hypothesis. We have reached a point where the accumulated peculiarities from this theory has thrown open the whole approach of quantum physics into independent inquiry. The entire gamut of philosophical explanations in the quantum theory is ridden with holes and the theory barely stands up in its attempt to connect observable phenomenon in the micro and macro cosmos. Eminent physicists are now looking at what has been preached in India for thousands of years about the basis of reality. India being the only place where every idea has been encouraged to take its natural course of completion either to stand alone tall and strong by it own merits of truth or perish completely into oblivion in the long forgotten annals of history