The Rehabilitation of the Sacred (Bilingual)

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The Bilingual Booklet about Fifth Tagore Memorial Lecture on The Rehabilitation of the Sacred (पावनता का पुनर्वास) by Padma Shri Prof. Ramesh Chandra Shah on 14th November 2018 at India International Centre, New Delhi.

In the Indian tradition of Advaita Vedanta, knowledge in the highest sense is immediate, an experienced reality, in which the duality of knowing subject and known object lapses. But there is something in the Western concept of knowing which transforms the other into an object and thus takes possession of it. Knowledge becomes conceptual control of the universe – permitting no inappropriable mystery in things, in persons, in other cultural – religious traditions. Similarly there is something in their concept of belief too which can be sustained only by the existence of an infidel. An unbelieving other,who can never find himself and is eternally damned. Is there, one wonders in the westernized world of to-day any possibility of a mode of experiencing, which is non-objectifying?

ISBN: 9789382396666 The Bilingual Booklet about Fifth Tagore Memorial Lecture on The Rehabilitation of the Sacred (पावनता का पुनर्वास) by Padma Shri Prof. Ramesh Chandra Shah on 14th November 2018 at India International Centre, New Delhi.In the Indian tradition of Advaita Vedanta, knowledge in the highest sense is immediate, an experienced reality, in which the duality of knowing subject and known object lapses. But there is something in the Western concept of knowing which transforms the other into an object and thus takes possession of it. Knowledge becomes conceptual control of the universe – permitting no inappropriable mystery in things, in persons, in other cultural – religious traditions. Similarly there is something in their concept of belief too which can be sustained only by the existence of an infidel. An unbelieving other,who can never find himself and is eternally damned. Is there, one wonders in the westernized world of to-day any possibility of a mode of experiencing, which is non-objectifying?ISBN: 9789382396666

Features

• Title : The Rehabilitation of the Sacred (Bilingual)
• Author : Prof Ramesh Chandra Shah
• Publisher : Indian Institute of Advanced Study
• Binding : Paperback
• Published Date : November 2018
• Number Of Pages : 27
• Language : Hindi and English