Paroksha and Pratyaksha knowledge (Part-II) by Dr.N. R. Joshi

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Paroksha and

Pratyaksha knowledge (Part II) by Dr. N.R.Joshi

 

I am not

in the business of character assassination. In the past 10 years I contributed

to many India related lists. In my every posting I presented new information.

My postings are not rhetoric or arguments. They are composed to promote

knowledge and extract knowledge from other scholars so we grow together in our

common understanding. In my posting of “Paroksha and Pratyaksh knowledge”

I did present reference to a new book by Japanese author Hideyo Ogawa on

Patanjali. I met Dr. Sunil Bhattacharya in WAVEs 2008 conference. My impression

of him is that he is a sincere scholar. I liked his work on the ancient Indian

chronology. I personally like that he talks more about it. I suggest that Dr,

Bhattacharya read the book “Colonial Indology” of Dr. Dilipa

Chakrabarti from Oxford University. Dr Chakrabarti also thinks that the ancient

Indian history by alien scholars is a kind of scaffolding effort. However Dr.

Sunil Bhattacharya has freedom to handle any subject he wants. I described my

problem with Paroksha knowledge. I have no desire to stop others if they would

like to talk about Paroksha knowledge. I was explaining my position. As a scientist

I cannot talk about “Paroksha knowledge”. I myself am bathing

everyday in new Pratyaksha knowledge in my engineering discipline of

Nondestructive Testing and in my India related research of the ancient history

of Mahabharata and Semantics of Sanskrit. The sad part is in these three areas

I am getting new information from Americans. In engineering discipline

industrial people learn from me and I learn from them everyday. In India

related research Americans send so much information to me that I have to say to

them, please stop, it takes time for me to read books you suggested. Often I

get either position papers or arguments from Indian writers or

invitation to Satsanga. There is nothing wrong in Satsanga. In those

meetings I come across Indian neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists,

doctors and unfortunately they are reluctant to talk anything other that this

Guru and that Guru. In Houston Texas there is large Indian qualified population

of scientists and engineers but they do not arrange scientific seminars among

them, for benefit of general Indian population, instead they invite Gurus. I am

not against that. But Gurus are telling us the same thing from thousands of

years. Now they got new tool-introductory lecture brochure with sexy looking

lady in meditation. I am not a psychologist. Where do I get chance to talk

about difference between psychology of Americans and Indians or on Genetics or

on new Neurological discoveries and effect of that on our ancient science of

consciousness. My sincere request to all Indian scholars- to me your scientific

knowledge is more important than your search in unknown from ancient India.

There are books on the knowledge from the ancient India. It gives me joy to

find that ancient Indians were thinking logically, rationally and

learning from their experience. So for those who are proud of ancient Indian

knowledge, here is the new book. “Etymologies in Shatha Brahmana”

by Dr. Nargis Verma. The book is good, scholarly, and full of details. In this

book multiple etymologies of single Sanskrit word are presented from ancient

Indian authors. Please read and then tell me does this make any sense to you.

So I have given new information in this posting also. Thanks. Please pardon me

for a long posting. N. R. Joshi.