Achyut patwardhan biography of martin

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In they formed the Socialist Party of India , independently of the Congress. In , Achyut retired from politics and worked again as Professor in the Central Hindu College till After that patios, he led an entirely secluded and retired life in Pune , not appearing in public at all, and not even responding to correspondence. Contents move to sidebar hide.

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Thought is knowledge. Knowledge is experience. Knowledge, memory, thought, action - this is the cycle man has been caught in for twenty-five thousand years. I think there is no dispute about that. This cycle has been a process of accumulating knowledge and functioning from that knowledge, either skilfully or unskilfully. The process is stored in the brain as memory, and the memory responds in action.

This is the cycle in which man is caught; always within the field of the known. Now what will change man? That is one problem. The other is consciousness. Consciousness is its content; its content makes up consciousness. All the superstitions, beliefs, the class divisions, the brahmanic impressions, all that falls within consciousness. The idol, the belief, the idea of god, suffering, pain, anxiety, loneliness, despair, depression, uncertainty, insecurity, all that is within human consciousness.

It is not my consciousness; it is human consciousness, because wherever you go, America or Russia, you meet the same problem. Human beings carry this complex burden of consciousness which contains all the things that thought has put together. Is it all that thought has put together? Do you say both are co-terminous? K: We will come to that presently.

When you examine your own consciousness, whether you are a doctor, a scientist, a philosopher, a guru, you find your own anxieties, your uncertainties - all that is your consciousness. And that consciousness is the ground on which all humanity stands. Is all this added up the sum of consciousness; or is consciousness more than this sum? The question is: Is consciousness the sum of its past thoughts, knowledge, all that is put together, or, is there something more to it?

That one is more than the sum of these parts is a possibility that must be considered. K: Even positing something as pure consciousness is part of our consciousness. Would you agree so far: whatever thought has put together, whether it is super-consciousness, ultimate consciousness, pure consciousness, is still part of our consciousness, is still part of thought, and thought is born of knowledge, and, therefore, completely limited?

All knowledge is limited. There is no complete knowledge of the computer or of the atom bomb or of anything. K: Consciousness is knowledge. Would you not say that our whole existence is experience? From experience - whether it is scientific, emotional or sexual - we acquire knowledge.

Achyut patwardhan biography of martin

And that knowledge is stored in the brain as memory. The response of memory is thought. Put in any way, the process is that. K: Fear is the product of thought, not the other way round. Would you admit that thought arises from knowledge, that knowledge can never be complete about anything? Therefore, thought is always limited, and all our actions - scientific, spiritual, religious - are limited.

So the crisis is in knowledge, which is consciousness. Does thought arise as a reaction to fear? How does fear arise? Upadhyayaji said 'yes', some of us certainly say 'no'. K: Sir, what is reality? I would like to explore that question. What is nature, the tree, the tiger, the deer? Nature is not created by thought; what is not created by thought is reality.

Thought has created everything that I know - all the temples, the churches, the mosques. There is nothing sacred about thought; the rituals, the mass, the namaz, the prayers, all that is the invention of thought. Then I ask myself: What is thinking? If you ask my name, I respond immediately because I am familiar with it. But if you ask me something which is more complex, it takes time to investigate, to answer.

That is, I look to my memory and try to find the answer or I consult books or talk to somebody to find the answer. So there are: an immediate response, a response of time, and the response which says, 'I really do not know. That memory is in the cells of my brain, derived through tradition, education, experience, perception, hearing and so on.

I am all that. Born in India, educated abroad, the content of my consciousness is the result of Indian culture, European culture, Italian culture, so on and so forth; the content of my consciousness is the result of innumerable talks, discussions with scientists, religious people. My consciousness is me; I am not different from my consciousness.

So the observer is the observed. That is a fact. My consciousness is the consciousness of humanity; it is not separate. And this consciousness has known conflicts, pain. He participated in civil disobedience called by Gandhiji. He took an important role in the August Biplab 42 movement.. He became known as the "Lion of Sataray". No comments:.

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