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Wisdom

The Absolute is Adorable

by Nataraja Guru

This innovative elucidation charts out the structural map of wisdom the finalised knowledge concerning life in its generic and specific aspects. It encompasses the entire range of human wisdom including epistemology, axiology, politics and mysticism.

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Category: Philosophy

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ISBN: 9788124600337

Year Of Publication: 1995

Edition: 1st

Pages: viii, 284

Bibliographic Details: Glossary; Index

Language : English

Binding : Hardcover

Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.

Size: 23 cm.

Weight: 500 gms

Overview

This strikingly innovative elucidation charts out the structural map of wisdom the finalised knowledge concerning life, both in its generic and specific aspects. Nataraja Guru, the eminent contemporary thinker, handles the theme as well as the methodology in a very original way. Thematically it encom-passes the entire range of human wisdom, including epistemology, axiology, mathematics, sociology, politics and mysticism. The author presents a scheme of coherent pattern in which all distinctions between contemplative and active, functional and theoretical, contingent and necessary, Eastern and Western dissolve into the unity of the Absolute Truth. The subject-matter and object-matter of wisdom when put in proper perspective around the normative notion of the Absolute, culminate in the idea of common human happiness. In the age of excessive specialization and compart-mentalization, Nataraja Gurus handling of the subject matter is a unique response to the legitimate cry for unification and integration. The methodology adopted throughout this interpretation is unitively taking care of the vertical progress of human wisdom along with the horizontal process of adjustment with the incidental necessities that are demanded by the process. Nataraja Gurus insightful combination of the spiritual with the modem science stands out as a tall land-mark in the field of contemporary wisdom and scholar-ship. It is a powerful beacon to the solace-seeking mankind that is being tortured by the outrageously materialistic society.

Preface
Part I
The Absolute is the Adorable
1. Wisdoms Frame of Reference
The Total Content of Wisdom
Two Intersecting Axis of Correlation
Limits of Empiricism
Dialectics to the Rescue
Dialectics not Old, New, Eastern or Western
Common Knowledge vs. Modern Theories
Platonism and Aristotelianism Really Complementary
The Vertical Axis Implied in Plato
Mathematical Version of Dialectical Descent
The Ascent from Prius Nobis to Entelecheia
The Central Locus of Paradoxes
The Monad Fitted into the Frame
Cosmological Correlation
Correlation in Particle Physics
Biological Correlation
Theological Correlation
Psychological Correlation
Ethical and Aesthetic Correlations
Logical and Mathematical Correlation
Logical Syntax and Correlaton
Mystical or Contemplative Correlation of Wisdom
2. Existence
Existence and Essence
Existentialism
Static and Dynamic Existence
Mometary and Eternal Existence
Metaphysical Bewilderment and Overlapping Definitions
The Nortion of Non-Dual Existence
The Existent in Shankaras Philosophy
3. Subsistence
The Charge-Over from Existence to Subsistence
Alternation
Double Negation in Hegel and Shankara
Hypostatic and Hierophantic Substances
Ascent into the Specific Essence
Values are More than Mere Concepts
4. Value Dynamics
The Emergence of Value
Scale of Values
Axiology and Phenomenology
Consciousness Of and In a World
Personal Intentions and Values Implied in Vertical Living
Axiological Dynamism
Phenomenology and Value Dynamics
Personalism and Pure Value Dynamics
5. The Absolute and the Relative
The Crowing Gift of Wisdom
Present Status of the Notion of the Absolute
Paradox Explained
Double Negation and Double Affirmation
To What Purpose?
Initiation into the Way of the Absolute
Einstein and Newton
Need for an Integral Science
Recent Appraisals
The Scope of Wisdom
6. The Philosophy of Necessity
Food as a High Value
Common Need for Happiness
7. The Absolute is the Adorable
The Epistemological and Methodological Home of the Absolute
Being and Becoming Meet in the Unitive Absolute
Degrees of Duality in the Logic of the Absolute
The Terms of the Paradox have to be Bridged
The Zig-Zag Course of Indian Logic and Thought
Symbolic Logic in the West Cannot be Expected to Resolve the Paradox
Pure Dialectics has to Come to the Rescue
The Absolute is Adorable and Merciful
Conclusion
PART II
The Unitive Approach
to Religion and Theology
8. Science and Religion Unitively Approached
The Two Dimensions of Religion
The Lost Dimension of Religion
Neutral Absolute at the Core of Conflicting Values
The Law of Reciprocity and Compensation
The Failure of Scientific Orthodoxy
The Return to Animism and a New Absolutism
Religions have Now All to be Understand Unitively as Belonging to the Same Context of the Absolute as the Central Norm of All Religions.
The Ever-Deepening Mystery of Matter
Hypostatic Trends in Materialism
Synthetic Science and Analytic Theology
A Larger Frame of Reference Needed
Vertical Exclusion and Horizontal Explosion
God as a Vertical Axis
9. The Lords Prayer for Man
The Best Prayer Asks for Nothing
Prayer Establishes a Unitive Relation
The Limits and Content of Prayer
Prayer Implies a Bipolar Relation
Conditions of Correct Prayer Fulfilled in Varied Forms
Unitive Prayer is a Darshana
Dualistic and Non-Dualistic Prayers
The Solipsist Principle Implicit in All Prayer
The Law of Reciprocity in Prayer
10. The Lost Idiom of the Bible
Two Categories of Thought
Crossroads
Wisdom-Reasoning
11. Allah the Absolute
Enigmatic Epithets
Challenge and Recognition
12. Temple Exoterics
Iconographic Esoterics
Microcosm and Macrocosm
Equating Self and Non-Self
The Vertical Axis
The Six Value Nodes (Shad-adhara)
13. The Androgynous God of South India
Shiva and Dionysos
A Peoples God
The Lingam
Release from Sex-Sin
14. The Philosophy of the Divine Family of Shiva
Myth and Philosophy
The Shiva Family
Shiva Legend and Wisdom
The Parvati Set of Values
Secrets of Stone Language
Ganesha
Subrahmanya
Guru-Aspect
Aryan-Dravidian Fusion
15. The Spiritual Role of the Sikhs
Meditation
Yoga can be Only One
Guru Formation of the Sikhs
Indian Behaviour Patterns, Dynamic and Static
The Sikh Pattern of Behaviour
Amritsar, The Norther City of Dream
Values and Guru Loyalties
First Aquaintance with Sikhism
Anything Better than Something Worse

Meet the Author

Nataraja Guru

1895-1973

Nataraja Guru is the disciple-successor of Narayana Guru (1854-1928), whose dialectical revaluation and restatement of Sankaracarya’s Advaita Vedanta conformed for the first time to the requirements of a normative or experimental science, to the extent that will probably ever be possible. Sankara himself may be said to be a continuator of Vyasa, who in his turn revised and restated the wisdom of the Upanishads as understood in his time. Nataraja Guru is thus a representative of the same pure, direct and vertical line of succession of philosophical revaluators extending back through time to the most ancient phase of the recorded history of human thought. The Guru may thus be seen to be uniquely qualified to undertake the present work, which he did at the instance of Narayana Guru himself. Sent by Narayana Guru to study in the West, Nataraja Guru was awarded the D. Lit. degree from the University of Paris. In 1923 he established the Narayana Gurukula, with headquarters at Varkala in Kerala State, a Guru-disciple foundation which welcomes all who seek the wisdom of the Absolute in open and living terms. The Guru has translated into English and commented on all of the major works of Narayana Guru, and has written on a wide variety of subjects, employing throughout a protolinguistic or structural approach which could be said to be his unique contribution to the perennial wisdom heritage of mankind.

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