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The knowledge and information explosion in the recent times has made human life and affairs almost unmanageable. Ecological influences of knowledge has therefore become a matter of investigation. In recent times Woijeichowsky, Herman, Wigner, Pribram, Delgado, Weizsacker have been active in this field the need for which was already implied by one of the founders of quantum physics. The latter made the assertion that like position and momentum, life and ‘knowledge of life’ constitute canonical conjugates; to the extent we know of one we are uncertain of the other. More and more we know of mechanisms of living organisms, life slips out and we deal with the deader and deader objects. This certainly follows from [Vedantic Concept] which emphasises the concept that the doer must eventually become pure existence immersed in ultimate bliss. This idea is not only perennial but in various ways of expression, ubiquitous as we saw in the writing of Valery. It is rather remarkable that each of the words used in this context is bristling with difficulties and begging much, even a definition. The scientist, the philosopher, the musician, the mystic all use them in somewhat private sense. But the spectra of ideas enshrined in these concepts are vital. These are not only vital for mere being, mere working, but to get out of thraldom of banality to become a whole man in the context of Nature. Doubtless these have been investigated since man mimicked the sounds of Nature to express the leaves of ideas aflutter in the winds within, but now in this year of revolution, face-to-face with the challenges of the 21st century, the terrible, these must need to be looked into by all, the humble and the great. Themes relevant to this objective are discussed in this book.