#IndianKnowledgeSystems #Thought #Concepts
Recent posts on Twitter on Dr. Vasudeva Sharan Agrawalla has filled me with concern about our engagement with the past.
A Civilization distinguishes itself in
- Thought, Concepts in evolves
- Translating that into material life.
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Recent posts on Twitter on Dr. Vasudeva Sharan Agrawalla has filled me with concern about our engagement with the past.
A Civilization distinguishes itself in
- Thought, Concepts in evolves
- Translating that into material life.
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Thought simply does not accumulate. It flows, evolves, morphs into something else. Every generation passes its Past into the Future in two ways
- Pure Conceptual Unchanging Thought
- How it applied to specific times and how it can flow into the Future
Its a Relay.
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- Pure Conceptual Unchanging Thought
- How it applied to specific times and how it can flow into the Future
Its a Relay.
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Consequently, engaging with our immediate ancestral generations and their thought is very crucial to how we take things forward in in our times and pass it onto the future.
In this, the world of Kannada is lucky. This continuous flow of Thought is not seriously disturbed.
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In this, the world of Kannada is lucky. This continuous flow of Thought is not seriously disturbed.
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Other regions are not so lucky simply because of one kind of an assault or the other since 800 years.
Yet, it must be said that our Ancestors between 1850 to 1950 have left us great treasure - like Dr. Agrwalla.
This is a National Treasure of Thought.
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Yet, it must be said that our Ancestors between 1850 to 1950 have left us great treasure - like Dr. Agrwalla.
This is a National Treasure of Thought.
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Hence, it is absolutely necessary for our generation to engage with this treasure of Thought in every language.
We know very less about intellectuals, scholars in every single language in this period - more so if they were part of the Traditional Ecosystem.
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We know very less about intellectuals, scholars in every single language in this period - more so if they were part of the Traditional Ecosystem.
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The Power of Ideas is everything. That is how the Past will flow into the Future.
We are doing very well in terms of responding to Political, Social, Cultural, Institutional issues.
But we are not doing enough writ Thought & Ideas.
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We are doing very well in terms of responding to Political, Social, Cultural, Institutional issues.
But we are not doing enough writ Thought & Ideas.
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Few of us will have to dedicate ourselves to merely engage with our Past in terms of scholarship, literature, ideas, concepts how they were used, what difference they made and how can they be applied and how they can be passed to the future.
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And that requires disengaging with immediate concerns of our times. Of course, ideally Universities have to do this. Hopefully @ChanakyaUni will make a difference to this building Thought from the Past into the Future.
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We, at @IndicaOrg @indicatoday , are primarily concerned with this building ideas/concepts/thought from #IndianKnowledgeSystems .
Those who are interested can leverage one of our many platforms.
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Those who are interested can leverage one of our many platforms.
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But this is a critical activity that requires dedicated, serious, disciplined engagement. Sticking to a few things but going deep into them.
We need this in scale.
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We need this in scale.
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The long term survival of our Civilization depends how we will engage with our Past in general & immediate Past in particular, in every single language & transform that into a National Treasure.
Excerpts from Dr. Agrawalla’s books has just filled me with urgency in this regard.
Excerpts from Dr. Agrawalla’s books has just filled me with urgency in this regard.
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