A Glimpse of Hindu Philosophy with Analogy of Modern Science

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About The Book

The idea behind writing this book was keeping two types of people in mind. First of all those who are curious to know and wish to understand some basics of the Hindu philosophy, but cannot find some simple writings under the modern perspective so as to let them understand and try to believe, observe and follow some of its philosophical teachings. Secondly those who under the influence and achievements of modern science do not believe in the teachings of philosophy and consider the subjects like philosophy of no use in practical life. Here in this book some of philosophical teachings applicable in one's daily living is explained giving an analogy of modern science, so that those who can understand science can understand the philosophy under the scientific perspective. Science does not and cannot explain many things that are far beyond the sense perception and are not observable by scientific instrumentation. Philosophy picks up the unknown where the science stops.

Because of not understanding and not believing in the philosophical teachings, particularly the subjects like the theory of Karma and its results, the possibility of life after death, people end up doing all kinds of things that they would never do if and only if they could understand the karma theory and man's own capability of making its own future and its destiny and luck. They would never indulge in the crimes like murder and theft and other bad and corrupt practices if they could only understand that if a court or judge can not punish them for such acts, they could not escape from the results of all their actions. People must suffer or enjoy the fruits of their karma, either in this very life or in some other future incarnations. It has to catch up with them some time or the other.

About the Author

Er. Ram Nath Sahni was born in village Lote in Lahoul Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh (Formerly part of Punjab). After going through his primary and middle schooling in his native village, he did his matriculation from Government High School Kullu and F.Sc. (faculty of science) from D.A.V. College Jalandhar Punjab. After receiving his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh India he went to Cornell University Ithaca New York U.S.A. where he earned his Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering.

After graduation from Chandigarh, he worked as a Principal of ITI in Shamshi Kullu India for a year. After post graduation from Cornell, he worked in NCR Corporation in Ithaca N.Y., rising through the ranks of Design Engineer, Project Engineer, Principal Engineer, and Senior Engineer. He also worked as Senior Engineer in Inficon Co. in Syracuse N.Y. in medical instrumentation. After that he worked in Xerox corp. as TSPM (Technical Specialist Project Manager) for some time. He was a member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) and IMC (International Management Council Ithaca Chapter) while he was in America.

He then came back to India and started Himalayan Industries, a small scale industry at Shamshi Kullu Himachal Pradesh. On political and social field he remained district V.P.and Member of State Working Committee of BJP Himachal Pradesh; District President of Bhartiya Itihas Sankalan Smiti and member of Vidwat Parishad for a short time. He also remained Director of HIMFED Coop society of Himachal Govt.

He is author of following books: 1. Lahoul, A Mystery Land in the Himalayas'; 2. 'A glimpse of Hindu Philosophy with Analogy of Modern Science (first edition)', 3. 'I Love India, But...'. He had also written book on Electronic Displays. As an inventor he has a fewpatents in the U.S.A., including the one in Optical Character Recognition for machines to read the written or printed matter.

He has always been interested in the study of philosophy and here he has made an effort to bring science and philosophy together bringing his profession and hobby closer to each other, especially for those who believe in science, but do not believe in the teachings of philosophy. For those who do not know the importance of life and role of philosophy in it and blindly impressed by the achievements of science disregard subjects like philosophy and its teachings. Here an effort has been made to show that how much intertwined the two subjects are and how important they are at their own sphere for each individual.

Preface

As we go on digging the Hindu philosophy, one can always find something new and worth studying. I had always been curious as to why Shiva's Tandav Nritya was called the creative energy or creative process of Shiva. What did this symbolic presentation of Shiva dancing in frantic gyration represented? Why did they attach the notion of creation, preservation, and destruction theory to this dance of Shiva, when in another theory the creation is attributed to Brahma, the preservation to Vishnu and death or destruction to Shiva, It was hard for me to accept this Tandav Nritya simply as the deity of dance and dancers. As I studied science more and more and the discoveries in science regarding the evolution theory of the universe and its birth, things started to dawn on me what after all this symbol was created for. When the Big-Bang theory came up and the scientific explanation provided for the birth of universe and also when the theory describing what the sun is and how the whole solar system was formed, Shiva's Tandav Nritya started unfolding on me. I felt that this is what the philosophers tried to show in this symbolic form and as such I felt like adding this as another chapter to my already published book since I cannot make a full book out of this alone. Here in this added chapter I have tried to explore and explain what after all this symbol meant to be. For lack of detailed descriptive writing, how else this theory could be presented in the symbolic form? I can feel a lot of objections raised from various quarters, as it may be difficult for many people to accept this theory which is unheard of before, Yet I feel I must present what I can see and feel in this symbolism. A picture of this Tandav Nritya is also presented at the end of the chapter so that the readers could themselves try to explore the meaning in it.

**Contents and Sample Pages**