//shrih// vaco-vinyaasa-vaicitryam

Dear Friends !

Is there any semblance between sentence and sentience ? Our sentences are obviously homosapient and so also our sentience is.Our peculiar sentience engenders and definitively shapes our peculiar sentences for communication either with the external world in overtly verbal form or in covertly verbal form while dealing with oneself,that is when we think,we of course think in language.This is a very peculiar phenomenon which calls for a philosophical explanation.

Is sentence a form of sentience or even sentience itself ! Philosophers vary in their positions and related arguments.Kumaarila distinguishes between a vikalpa and a shabda and both to be generating each other.Both are essentially the same as averred by another realist Naiyaayika.The advaitin would put it all back to cit or sentience better put as consciousness.Bhartrihari does the same thing.But then this knower-known paradigm one couldn't in the ultimate count reject and that is just what is the position of the Advaita Shaivaagama of Kashmir and tacitly as though this is admitted by the Naiyaayikas although with their admitted unimpeachable realistic dualistic position.

And can we differentiate sentience from consciousness per se,taking the former in the sense of
a particular individualised homosapient or otherwise consciouness and the later as the universal base of it,which may help us in philosophising more accurately ?

Surendra

vaag eva vishvaa bhuvanaani jajne

Dear Colleagues and Friends !

There is a saying in the Vedas that it is out of the potent Word that the universe has manifested in it's multifaceted reality.A true word is born of a true mind and it prompts a true action.Thus language plays an important role in shaping our mind and action.The cliche 'mind your own language' has a deeper sense.An individual as well as a society and a country ought to have a language which brings into being better minds and nobler actions which always make our world better.Language is the repository of our past,is a guide to our present and is a promissory note for our future,for it is our resolve couched in language that opens up doors on the brighter or gloomier tomorrows.That's just why grammarians,linguists and philosophers or yogins all over the world nurse and nurture the best in language which helps us catch up with the truth here or hereafter.

Many languages we have in the world, a few centuries of them in India alone,but Samskrit is unique,now the psycholinguists and computer scientists are further lending proof to this.She is the breathing apparatus of India's longest living vibrant and incessantly self-rejuvenating culture.Now the world of languages and linguists must celebrate the fact that recently the state of Uttarakhand has declared Samskrit as it's second official language.The serene Himalayan state has set an example worth emulating by other states and even the centre by placing Samskrit by the side of Hindi which is the official language as spelt in the constitution.This will be doing a long due justice to saints and statesmen like Swami Vivekananda,Swami Dayananda,Sri Aurobindo,the Mother of Pondicherry,Mahatma Gandhi,B.R.Ambedkar,K.M.Munshi and many others who put a premium on Samskrit education which was ruthlessly repressed and distorted during the British rule.

Let Samskrit regenerate herself to prove her historic legacy and living vitality in serving her divine vision and mission of a great India leading a great world !

Yours in truth,

Surendra

vishvatascakshur uta vishvataspaat

Dear and Honoured Friend,

The Vedas state that all eyes are verily His and all feet are verily His too.Thus all seeing-knowing and movement in multiple directions are verily His !If this is a fact and if we can assure ourselves of the idealistic and pragmatic use of this in a globalised world plagued with innumerable divisions and none seems prepared to see and on the undivided whole.This holism the Vedas declare in unequivocal spirit.Why can't we have a universal morality and distributive justice.The self of globalization ought to be visited by the champions of international justice and human rights and and develop that much required global ethical quotient without which globalisation in the earnest would be a misnomer.

Kindly concentrate on a better tomorrow !

Love and regards,

Surendra

sarasvati shrutimahati mahiyataam

Dear Esteemed Colleagues,

Namaste !

I am creating this blog to come close to you,to interact and collaborate in bringing out the best in ideas and idioms latent in our roots and branches of culture and civilization which promise an ideal,peaceful and purposeful human life on earth and elsewhere if so possible which is at once sustainable and in harmony with the universe as such.

We shall contemplate in retrospect and prospect knowing our individual follies and foibles and ensure a better world to live in,by making matter and spirit in their best to meet,cohere and cooperate in shaping our tomorrows breathing in divine materialism and material divinity.

See you soon later.

Yours truly,

Surendra