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Ways to Truth: A View of Hindu Tradition

Authors (s): Ananda Wood (Author)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 8124604355
ISBN-13: 9788124604359
Pages: x+269p., Figures; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
Pub. date: 31.12.2008, 1st ed.
Publisher: D K Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Language (s): English
Bagchee ID: BB44065
List price: $ 45,00
Bagchee price: $ 40,50
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In India, there has long been a tendency to emphasize the spoken word which is passed on alive from an individual teacher to each individual student.  But, through the development of modern media, more use is now made of the written word which records information externally, in institutions that have been industrially, socially and culturally organized.  How then can we understand the Hindu tradition as alive today with its ancient emphasis upon the spoken word and the living individual? That is the question which this book investigates.  Accordingly, it asks for a broader understanding of history, which would allow for a rightful accounting of the Vedas and of other oral learning.  Through its continued emphasis upon the living word, the Hindu tradition asks for a deeper understanding of reasoned enquiry.  Such a reasoning does not work primarily through mechanical instruments in the restricted way that modern physics does.  Instead, it works essentially through a reflective investigation of our living faculties, which are thus cultivated and clarified.  The goal of truth is not here sought through an institutional consensus; but rather as a common ground, which is approached quite differently through different personalities and institutions of culture.

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