A debate is going on outside a temple dedicated to MahaSaraswati the goddess of learning. In this debate an orange robed Sanyasin is contesting other pandits from all the different philosophical sects of India. At a little distance from the temple, a follower of the Sanyasin is washing clothes in the river. A young Kashmiri Jew and his sister watching him ask him about the debate.
A Conversation on the Six Systems of Indian Philosophy:
Meditation and action ⋅ Meditate to realize infinity act to stabilize it in daily life ⋅ You are either born to meditate and then to act in the outside world or born to meditate and then to engage in the activity of intellectual discrimination or devotion to God ⋅ Nyaya is the ‘lamp at the door’ ⋅
Kanada’s Vaisheshika analyses the ‘kanas’ or particles of wholeness ⋅ ‘By analysis (Sankhya) and synthesis (Yoga), the indivisible unity is realized in this world of infinite diversity’ ⋅ Karma Mimamsa sees how the unity of Yoga can be put to move in Yagya ⋅ Through Ya-Gya everything can be seen as ‘gyan’ pure knowledge ⋅ On this basis all the parts can be stitched together into one whole and parts and whole can be seen as one totality – Brahman (Vedanta).
The Tree's Commentary:
Modern education involves the student in learning more and more while Vedic education teaches the student how to remember less and less until there is only the memory of nothing ⋅ The whole galactic universe is administered from within the field of nothingness ⋅ Stationing one's awareness in that field of nothingness, the least excited state of consciousness, allows one to act in accord with that intelligence which administers the entire universe ⋅
Nyaya locates in the gap between words four 'abhavas'– pradhvamsabhava, atiantabhava, anyonyabhava and pragabhav ⋅ These four abhavas or forms of non-existence are also familiar to modern science ⋅ Pradhvamsabhava relates to that state when the previous word or syllable has been destroyed and pragabhava to that state before the next syllable has been created ⋅ Anyonya means mutual and anyonyabhava relates to that warmed up state of the gap where the memory of the past and of what is to come is there but nothing has yet begun to manifest ⋅ Anyonyabhava is like the quantum mechanical state of a system in which all possibilities are lively waiting to collapse into an actual observation ⋅ Atiantabhava is the transcendental or absolute form of non-existence ⋅ Atiantabhava is epitomised in that school of Vedanta that holds that the relative changing world never really is ⋅ Those people who experience the world as absolute and unchanging experience atiantabhava ⋅ For them the changing world absolutely does not exist.
Nyaya locates in the gap between words four 'abhavas'– pradhvamsabhava, atiantabhava, anyonyabhava and pragabhav ⋅ These four abhavas or forms of non-existence are also familiar to modern science ⋅ Pradhvamsabhava relates to that state when the previous word or syllable has been destroyed and pragabhava to that state before the next syllable has been created ⋅ Anyonya means mutual and anyonyabhava relates to that warmed up state of the gap where the memory of the past and of what is to come is there but nothing has yet begun to manifest ⋅ Anyonyabhava is like the quantum mechanical state of a system in which all possibilities are lively waiting to collapse into an actual observation ⋅ Atiantabhava is the transcendental or absolute form of non-existence ⋅ Atiantabhava is epitomised in that school of Vedanta that holds that the relative changing world never really is ⋅ Those people who experience the world as absolute and unchanging experience atiantabhava ⋅ For them the changing world absolutely does not exist.
This conversation leads to the conversation in the sixth book in which the unifying philosophy of Patanjali is related to the expanding and diversifying philosophy of Panini.
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