modern Indology

Finally, thousands of years later, this is Vedanta as it really is. Here I show the faults in Vivarta-vada and the faults in Parinama-vada. I correct both philosophies to create the Unified Theory of Vedanta. One offshoot of this, as told in the end, is the Philosophy of Paradox: "There is a God and there is no God." This article is in the appendix of the fourteenth chapter of the tenth canto, in my book: "Srimad Bhagavatam: A Symphony of Commentaries on the Tenth Canto" (Volume Three).

The Elephant is an animal found only in India and Africa. If this animal were to be mentioned in the Rigveda, it would be a clear proof that the Events described in the Rigveda took place in India. However, this translation shows that the words from the Rigveda commonly understood to denote the elephant, actually refer to another animal. This animal is not found in India.

This article is an introduction provided by me to the volume dedicated to the relevance and contemporaneity of the Sanskritic traditions for human survival. I accompanied this volume by an exhibition at the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts and a festival in celebration of the values enshrined in the tradition. The 15th World Sanskrit Conference was chosen as the occasion for discussing and exhibiting the ways in which the traditions have been articulated in a pluralistic manner in diverse scripts, in different spatial and temporal frames, life ways, arts, rituals, knowledge systems, texts, votive grants, dynastic inscriptions, exegetical treatises, poetic compositions, prescriptive and normative texts on organization of human life and affairs, promoted by Indian religious denominations and belief systems. The article illustrates the tradition as on of synthesis, a synthesis of identities and differences, multiplicity and unity, noumenal and phenomenal, enjoyment and renunciation, sacred and profane, microcosm and macrocosm, immanence and transcendence. It addresses the need to fulfill and carry forward the Indian Mission to the humanity riven by divisions, and bent on self destruction.

Pashupati Jha is one of the famous names among the leading Indian English poets. He is the author of “three widely read and reviewed” collections of poems: Cross and Creation (2003), Mother and Other Poems (2005), and All in One (2011). Awaiting Eden Again (2015) is his fourth collection of poems having sixty four poems on various themes. Being a true poet of earth, he gives a natural flow to his thought where moral, social and economic issues find their true expressions besides other issues. Like Sri Aurobindo, Prof. Jha believes that “poetry has mantra-like power” and its function is “to stir our feelings profoundly and transform our stony heart into human sensibility.” (Preface) He also suggests that if this belief is followed in its true sense then “cruelty and violence would be automatically minimised”. (Preface)

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