Consciousness and Freedom According to the Siva S Utras
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The logic of materialist science fails when observers are considered. How can inanimate matter, governed by xed laws, lead to mind? To bring in consciousness as a separate category like space, time, and matter, as suggested by many physicists and neuroscientists, leads to further paradox. This very issue was considered with great subtlety in the Vedic tradition of India. Here we consider one of the late classics of this tradition that deals with the question of consciousness, laws, and freedom|the justly famous Siva S utras (c. 800 C.E.). We present a new translation of the Siva S utras along with a commentary. He became the original form of every form It is his form that is everywhere to be seen.-Rigveda 6.47.18
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تاریخ انتشار 1997