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Chaturvedi Badrinath: Unity of Life and Other Essays

Tulsi Badrinath

Abstract

This book brings together a series of short essays by Chaturvedi Badrinath on diverse topics related to Indian philosophy and thought. Drawing mainly from the Mahabharata, the Upanishads, and the Yoga-vasishtha, Badrinath explores the concept of dharma, central to any understanding of the Indian civilization. The book engages the ordinary reader, who is perhaps unacquainted with formal philosophy, but is in search of meaning in the midst of the pressures of modern life. The moral dilemmas faced by human beings today are not new. In a world increasingly filled with fear, violence, and terrorism ... More

Keywords: dharma, ahimsa, foundation of relationships, philosophy, darsanas, Mahabharata, Yoga-vasishtha, truth, mind, anekanta-vada

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9780199465187
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2016 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199465187.001.0001

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Tulsi Badrinath, editor
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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Essays

1 Towards a World of Freedom*

Tulsi Badrinath

2 The Right Perception of Self-interest*

Tulsi Badrinath

3 State Must Free the Mind from Fear*

Tulsi Badrinath

4 Fear as the Basis of Social Order*

Tulsi Badrinath

5 Dharma and Jainism

Tulsi Badrinath

6 Human Freedom and Rights

Tulsi Badrinath

7 Truth in Jainism

Tulsi Badrinath

8 The Dharmic Law

Tulsi Badrinath

9 The Dharmic State

Tulsi Badrinath

10 The Caring State

Tulsi Badrinath

11 The Caring State

Tulsi Badrinath

12 Government Governs in Place of Law*

Tulsi Badrinath

13 Unity of Life

Tulsi Badrinath

14 Dharma and Islam—I

Tulsi Badrinath

15 Dharma and Islam—II

Tulsi Badrinath

16 The Supreme Court—I

Tulsi Badrinath

17 The Supreme Court—II

Tulsi Badrinath

18 To Have or To Be—I

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19 To Have or To Be—II

Tulsi Badrinath

20 Unity of Life

Tulsi Badrinath

21 Personal and Social Health

Tulsi Badrinath

22 The Paradox of Sex—I

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23 The Paradox of Sex—II

Tulsi Badrinath

24 The Human Condition

Tulsi Badrinath

25 Learning to Live

Tulsi Badrinath

26 The Roots of Violence—I

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27 The Roots of Violence—II

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28 The Love of Violence—I

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29 The Love of Violence—II

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30 The Power of Mind—I

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31 The Power of Mind—II

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32 Power of Perception

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33 The Karma Conundrum

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34 Jainism and Relativity

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35 Beyond Either/Or

Tulsi Badrinath

End Matter

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