Preface
What shall be the nature of our existence after death? The answer is found in the answer to another question: what is the nature of our existence now?... The secrets of the unknown are hidden in the known. The Kingdom is at hand, and death is neither its entrance nor its exit, but only an event we have met before. THE background of the chapters which follow is contained in the quotation above, and still more in the article from which it is taken. It suggests that the basis of life is in timeless and universal Being, which becomes projected for evolutionary purposes into the space-time world of existence. Existence can only be significant when seen against its root in pure Being. Birth, growth, decay and death and, if the tradition be true, rebirth, are all part of a single process. They are, moreover, not separate parts, but each one co-exists all the time with the others, even when one aspect predominates. state The total process of existence is called evolution. In the words of Teilhard de Chardin it consists in the passage of Life from a primitive, 'Alpha' of minimal consciousness-better called preconsciousness to an Omega state where consciousness, as understood by man today, reaches its zenith, after which it passes over into a new phase which, in the perennial philosophy of man-kind, is often described as the extinction or void of Nirvana. Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet is the beginning, Omega, the last letter, the end. Somewhere between them man appears, bringing with him the seed of individuality and of self-consciousness without which consciousness would not be able to differentiate itself from the massive yet vague and nebulous cloud of instinctive life, to become clear and focused as it must be in order to reach its conclusion.
About The Book
This Book suggests, according to the author, 'that the basis of life is in timeless and universal Being, which becomes projected for evolutionary purposes into the space-time world of existence. Existence can only be significant when seen against its root in pure Being. Birth, growth, decay. death and, if tradition be true, rebirth, are part of a single process. They are, moreover, not separate parts, but each one co-exists all the time with the others, even when one aspect predominates.
Hindu (1765)
Philosophers (2327)
Aesthetics (317)
Comparative (66)
Dictionary (12)
Ethics (44)
Language (350)
Logic (80)
Mimamsa (58)
Nyaya (134)
Psychology (497)
Samkhya (60)
Shaivism (66)
Shankaracharya (233)
Send as free online greeting card
Email a Friend
Manage Wishlist