Kapila Vatsayan (10 results)

Condition: As New. Softcover. Gift inscription on the inside of the front cover. No other writing.

Hardcover. Condition: New. This first volume of Opera Omnia is partly autobiographical, dealing as it does with the most important theme of Raimon Panikkar's life. It has been a distinct inspiration for all his writings, to the extent that it has become their indispensable hermeneutical key. Mysticism represents the third dimension that brings all the pages that follow into relief and into life. The reduction of existence to the senses or to reason limits Man to the status of a mere species among the various life forms: that of the rational animal. As we shall repeatedly see, human life (zoe) is not just its biological existence (bios). Man is not only in the likeness of God, the Source, the Beginning, the Wellspring, the Cause (all homeomorphic equivalents) but also in the image of Reality, a mikrokosmos as the Ancients used to say (up until Paracelsus and the followers of the philosophia adepta) that mirrors the whole makrokosmos. The distinction between image and likeness is more theological than lexical. Although for practical reasons this volume has been divided into two parts, it should be clarified from the outset that the two themes, mysticism and spirituality, may be distinguished but not separated. Few topics have had a worse reputation in some circles than mysticism, on which, to tell the truth, too much has been written, and badly; if we add the theme of spirituality as well, that the situation is even worse. …

Condition: New. pp. lxxiv + 670.

Condition: New. pp. lxxiv + 670 1st Edition.

Condition: New. pp. lxxiv + 670.

Hardcover. Condition: New. ISBN:9788120818613 N.A.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. By the dharma of Hinduism we mean its spirituality. This volume includes a whole book on this subject. But what do we mean by Hinduism? To write about Hinduism in an understandable way will start from the fundamental experience by which Man is Man and not a cat, a tree or a stone, even if he is in deep relation to them. Without this fundamental human experience (which we have frequently covered up by the encrustations of civilization and the dust of history) there is the risk of not interpreting other religions correctly. The first step toward avoiding this risk is to respect what have been called the golden hermeneutic rule, that is, that what is interpreted recognizes itself in the interpretation. If Jews or Shintoists are described in a way in which they cannot recognize themselves, it means that the description is not correct. The first section includes the book of the same title, The Dharma of Hinduism, in which the dharma is described not only as a real ontological order but also as a system which is extrinsic to the nature of things. The second section consists in various articles on Indian theology and philosophy while the third concentrates more on present day problems and the important role which India could play in the world of today as an alternative to technological society so long as it does not become overwhelmed and is able to be inspired by its ancestral richness for a new civilization. A hitherto unpublished essay (Indra's Cunning), which I wrote many years ago but was unable to finish yet feel is still valid from this perspective, is also included.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. This anthology aims at presenting the Vedas as a human experience that is still valid and capable of enriching and challenging modern Man, as he seeks to fulfill his responsibility in an age in which, for better or for worse, he is inseparably linked with his fellows and can no longer afford to live in isolation. Experiences cannot be transmitted but they can be described, and they can thus serve as stimuli to trigger our own experiences. An experience, as the word itself suggests, is something we go through, a threshold we cross, an enclosure into which we trespass, a nonrefundable outlay, an irreversible process. This anthology is also an invitation to appropriate for ourselves the basic experience of Vedic Man, not because it is interesting or ancient, but because it is human and thus belongs to us all. Indeed, among the many experiences of mankind, the Vedic experience is one that will evoke a responsive movement in that part of us that is numbed by the heavy pressures of modern life. Also an invitation to appropriate for ourselves the basic experience of Vedic Man, not because. We do not claim that what we have termed the "Vedic Experience" is precisely identical to that of Vedic Man. We may not be in a position to appropriate the intimate personal experience of a past generation. Our main concern is to make possible the Vedic experience of modern Man may usefully understand and assimilate by reenacting an experience that, because it is part of the total human experience, has left behind it clues and traces that may be important to follow. Thus it is our own personal Vedic experience that "happens.".…

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