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The voyage of philosophy throughout history and across cultures has been a search for an objective absolute truth. While many thinkers have emphasised what this ultimate truth is, others have focused on how we can come to know it. Although most of these intellectuals assumed that there is something objective... [Read More]

If physical stretching exercises and breathing techniques are what you think of when you hear the word “Yoga”, then you have been a target of the “yoga industrial complex”. Moreover, if you think of Yoga as “union” of some sort, like the union of the individual soul with the universal... [Read More]

Rgveda says that the truth is one, but the wise call it by different names. Jain philosophy takes it a few steps further to say that the truth doesn’t just have different names, but also has different aspects to it. There are so many ways to look at the truth,... [Read More]

Have you ever wondered how our physical bodies can produce the non-physical phenomenon we call the mind? Even if you believe in a non-physical soul or consciousness, you still have to ask: What is the relationship between our physical body and our immaterial soul? How do they interact? How does... [Read More]

In the previous post on Carvaka Darshan, we looked at the arguments they used to reject inference as a valid source of knowledge. They consider only perception as a means to know the truth, grounding their philosophy in perceptual empiricism. [Read More]