There is a popular narrative in India at present that Islamic Invaders and British Colonialists destroyed India’s traditional culture and civilization. That is not entirely false. But any serious student of history is led to ask: Why did these invaders succeed in conquering India when numerous such invasions were repelled previously? The Mauryan Empire in …
In all Vedic texts, nature is described as comprising three fundamental qualities from which all other experiences and realities are constructed. In this post, I will describe the peculiar properties of quality addition to show how they are different from quantity arithmetic. Since modern science grew out of the idea that matter is res extensa—i.e., …
Many people say that the God of Abrahamic religions is a “jealous” God. However, they don’t ask: If we can be jealous, then why can God also not be jealous? Similarly, if we can be non-jealous, therefore, God must also be non-jealous. This contradiction makes it very hard to understand God’s nature.
