From India To Infinity

Contents: I. The past as presence in the present: 1. Rediscovering ancient bonds between civilizations. 2. The Eurasian Saga. 3. The essence of India’s traditional worldview. 4. A French Prophet of India’s resurgence in the 19th century: Saint Yves d’ Alveydre and his Mission de l’Inde. 5. Tolstoy and Gandhi: Genesis of an ideological revolution. 6. The British Empire, India and commonwealth constitutions. 7. The British Empire, India and commonwealth constitutions. II. Geopolitics as destiny: 7. India’s Foreign policy in the perspective of its history. 8. The Indian Ocean: from backwater to strategic epicenter. 9. The rise of Brics: from financial scenario to strategic Bloc. 10. India in Africa: past and present. 11. Ancient Kinship: Bonds between India and Italy through the ages. 12. Tibet in the New Great Game. 13. How the war on terror gatecrashed India. III. The memory of the future: 14. Cosmosophy, a philosophy for the new millennium. 15. Indian cosmology revisited in the light of current facts. 16. Our future: a roadmap in the Noosphere. Index.

This is a collection of essays dedicated to India’s past and present, its role and mission in the world and the contributions it has made and continues to make to the spiritual and material capital of humanity.

After looking at some of the many factors, internal and foreign, that have contributed to the formation of the national as it is today, the book explores various aspects of the harmonic convergence between contemporary scientific discoveries and philosophical insights and the esoteric Indian teachings and symbolic representations.

India’s intellectual civilization has been since its remote Vedic origins centered on the notion of infinity in time and space, though it was also constantly and simultaneously aware of the impermanence and elusive character of all creation. This book proposes a reflection on the paradoxical but essential connection between seemingly hard realities found in history, geopolitics and the economy and the soft contemplative truth of metaphysics, mythology and mysticism. That perspective emanates from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra and Buddhist scriptures which account for the world as a process of dynamic interaction between consciousness and matter.