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Most people don't ask what we mean when we talk about God, but go directly to God's identity: Who is God? But the Vedic scriptures also talk about what is God. For instance, the Srimad Bhagavatam presents God as jnanam advayam (nondual knowledge). What is that nondual knowledge and how does it differ from dual knowledge? This short clip is taken from the Shabda Podcast #9 ("What is God", season 2, episode 9, September 2020) with Ashish Dalela. https://youtu.be/ZZRNo27AjYA Relevant book: The Science of God: The Twelve Principles of Perfection https://press.shabda.co/publications/the-science-of-god/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4zisoT8JDk #whatisgod #nonduality
Ask What is God before Who is God
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The basic problem throughout Western philosophy and science has been the dual nature of ideas, which are both immanent and transcendent. And because the West could not deal with this problem, they created a world of duality in which two things are either identical or independent, but not related via immanence. This separation or identity is what constitutes Western logic, and it is a false idea because it is built upon the notion that the idea color is not immanent in the individual colors black and white. In a simple sense, the need for alternative mathematics arises from this dual nature of concepts as both immanent and transcendent, because it a creates a logical contradiction. This short clip is taken from the Shabda Podcast #8 ("Mathematical Novelties in Vedic Philosophy", season 1, episode 8, January 2019) with Ashish Dalela. https://youtu.be/ZZRNo27AjYA Relevant book: Godel's Mistake - The Role of Meaning in Mathematics https://press.shabda.co/publications/godels-mistake/ #transcendence #immanence
Immanence and Transcendence
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The deference to authority is misunderstood by most people who think that you just blindly surrender to some authority and dogmatically accept whatever they say and that becomes the truth. The right understanding is that this deference to authority is only for discovery not for verification. So, there is a method of reason and experience for the individualistic seeker which tries to discover the answer themselves. And then there is a method of reason and experience which is applied for verification. So in Vedic philosophy all these three methods are recognized, but they have a place of their own. This short clip is taken from the Shabda Podcast #7 ("Knowledge by Reason, Experience and Authority", season 1, episode 7, November 2018) with Ashish Dalela. https://youtu.be/MZd-EUHCdqo Relevant book: Sankhya and Science - Applications of Vedic Philosophy to Modern Science https://press.shabda.co/publications/sankhya-and-science/ #philosophyofscience
Knowledge: Discovery Versus Verification
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In Vedic philosophy experience and reason are considered valid methods of knowledge, but based on an entirely different metaphysics than Western philosophy... This short clip is taken from the Shabda Podcast #7 ("Knowledge by Reason, Experience and Authority", season 1, episode 7, November 2018) with Ashish Dalela. https://youtu.be/MZd-EUHCdqo Relevant book: Sankhya and Science - Applications of Vedic Philosophy to Modern Science https://press.shabda.co/publications/sankhya-and-science/ #philosophyofscience
Metaphysics for a Workable Empiricism and Rationalism
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There are three main problems in rationalism that have remained unsolved for a long time... This short clip is taken from the Shabda Podcast #7 ("Knowledge by Reason, Experience and Authority", season 1, episode 7, November 2018) with Ashish Dalela. https://youtu.be/MZd-EUHCdqo Relevant book: Godel's Mistake - The Role of Meaning in Mathematics https://press.shabda.co/publications/godels-mistake/ #epistemology
The Problems of Rationalism
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Only when we decide how we know anything we can apply this method of knowledge to actually know. Then we can talk about the reality that exists and why that reality enables knowledge. Ashish Dalela critiques one such method of knowledge called empiricism, which has many problems, but one of them is particularly relevant from a scientific perspective... This short clip is taken from the Shabda Podcast #7 ("Knowledge by Reason, Experience and Authority", season 1, episode 7, November 2018) with Ashish Dalela. https://youtu.be/MZd-EUHCdqo Relevant book: Quantum Meaning - A Semantic Interpretation of Quantum Theory https://press.shabda.co/publications/quantum-meaning/ #epistemology
The Problems of Empiricism
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