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WHAT IS THE BASIC INDIAN PHILOSOPHY?
As far as I am concerned, I do not see philosophy as Indian or non-Indian. It is not possible.
Philosophy is only universal. There can be no geographical division in the human mind. These
divisions, these distinctions, are political. Indian, Japanese and German, or eastern and western –
all these divisions are political. They have arisen out of the political mind. In the realm of philosophy
we apply them unnecessarily. Not only unnecessarily, but meaninglessly as well. There is no Indian
philosophy as such; there cannot be. Philosophy is a universal attitude.
You can see the world through three dimensions. One dimension is science: that is, thinking
empirically about reality. The second dimension is philosophy: thinking about reality speculatively.
And the third dimension is religion: not thinking about reality at all, but experiencing it.
Science is based on empirical experimentation, observation and objective thinking. Philosophy is
based on nonempirical, speculative thinking – subjectively based. Religion transcends both.
Religion is neither objective nor subjective. Religion conceives of the whole in terms of its
wholeness. That is why we use the term ’holy’. Holy means ’that which comprehends the whole’.
When we call a particular type of mind the Indian mind – when we designate it as such, when we
make this distinction – it is not a geographical distinction. When we say ’Indian’ – to me it means
that the world, the reality, is being seen neither through science nor through philosophy