Ancient Indian Civilization

Roots of binary thinking-Aristotle logic of excluded middle      Aristotle law of excluded middle states that for a proposition there are only two outcomes and these two outcomes are mutually exclusive and there is no third outcome between these two outcome. This is referred to as bivalent system. This binary categories can be good/evil, true/false and self/other. This may be useful in simplifying management of  practical situations but if the binary categories are freezed than it excludes the options of any creativity or diversity. This law eliminates the possibilities of things being mutually dependent, interrelated and interpenetrated. The mutual exclusivism of two classes promotes exclusivistic mindset such as Class B has no relation with Class A and vice-versa. This law stands in contrast with the intertwined nature of relationships in dharmic systems. Thus, this law encourages to think in terms of isolatable categories, define...

Ashta laxmi In today's world most of us are running after earning more and more wealth to become rich and are ready to make great sacrifices for accumulating lot of wealth. But hardly, we pause for a second and contemplate about the real value of the wealth we seek to earn.  There are some commonly experienced facts that a rich man child gets easily spoiled because rich man don't get time to give proper time and attention in parenting their children. Rich men health goes so bad that they can hardly eat sumptuous food rather they have to stay alive on soups and boiled foods. Some top-shot people have to work so hard to meet the tough competition that they skip their meals. Someone may be having lot of money but their character may not be good as it can be seen with the corrupt politicians and traitors who amass lot of wealth but loose their integrity and self image. The rich person has to constantly be tormented by the fears for loosing his wealth as well as posi...