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By Pragyansharma Polavarapu A SIMPLE STORY OF HINDU PHILOSOPHY 3000 years ago ancient Vedic Aryan philosophers meditating in the beautiful forests of Himalayan foot hills concluded that human life is most holy, that a soul equivalent to god almighty himself exists in every creature and that man after a cycle of hundreds of thousands of births gets a permanent place in god’s high heaven made of 100% divinity. It was a picture of happiness and high morality treating earthly life as unreal and treating only the god’s heaven as real. India is a vast multiracial society boxed between seas and icy high mountains. Since 3000 years the philosophy of high spirituality and otherworldliness was preached by Ramayana and Mahabharatha.Lord Buddha(5th century BC) a mighty royal prince renounced his kingdom and power and worked for 50 years among the poor and downtrodden people along with his great disciples and worked tirelessly for uplift of socially backward people. The philosophers recogniz...

By PragyanSharma Polavarapu Old India like old Greece is famed for its philosophy of extreme beauty ,art ,morality and spirituality. In fact some of our philosophers claim that entire philosophy ,art and spirituality were invented in India. But we are not narrow- minded. "Let streams of knowledge flow from every area of world. Let winds of knowledge blow from every corner of the world" --our philosophers said. There are great philosophers in world from ancient to modern times .In ancient Greece and Rome there were great thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus , Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelias etc. In medieval and modern Europe there were great philosophers –Sir Francis Bacon, René Decarte, Spinoza, George Berkeley, Voltaire, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Bertrand Russell, Jean Paul Sartre etc. There are great scintillating and sublime eastern philosophers ancient to present–Maharshi Vyasa, Lord Buddha ,Lord Mahaveera, Acharya Nag...