Qualities and Non-Binary Logic Quality thinking breaks ordinary logic whereas quantity thinking does not. In ordinary logic, there are always two opposites. Only one of these could be true, and one of them must be true. The former condition forbids both opposites from being true, and the latter condition forbids […]
Sociology
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The Varṇāśrama Skill Ladder
Different Skills of Four Classes The Varṇāśrama system of the division of society into four classes is based on a skill ladder. It progresses in skill from the understanding of inanimate objects (sudra), to the understanding of non-human living entities like trees, plants, crops, and domestic animals (vaisya), to the […]
Philosophy
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Material vs. Spiritual Realism
Introduction and Overview Vedic vs. Western Notions of Realism There is a sense in which Vedic philosophy is realist—a soul moves in a space of meaning-states called childhood, youth, and old age (higher) and hungry, thirsty, lusty (lower). All these states are fixed and eternal, but the soul’s connection to […]