Science Consciousness Freedom

Contents: Preface. I. Science: i. Western Science and the Physical Universe: 1. Sense perception of physical phenomena -- its limitations. 2. Laws of nature -- theories of creation according to western science. 3. Quantum and beyond: gluons and the grand unification. 4. The universe of Stephen Hawking -- modern advanced view of physics. 5. Concluding note on the physical sciences. ii. The Indian Vision of the Physical Universe: 1. Concept of body -- some Indian theories. 2. Theory of creation-cum-manifestation according to Indian philosophical concepts. iii. The Body, the Mind and the Unconscious: 1. Life -- its nature, origin and evolution. 2. Journey into the brain and the mind. 3. Living organisms -- an integrated approach. 4. Psychology of the unconscious. 5. Passage from science to consciousness. II. Consciousness: 1. Consciousness -- a general discussion. 2. Religious consciousness. 3. Kundalini or embodied consciousness: a scientific exposition. 4. Tantras: analysis of consciousness. 5. Notion of consciousness and the integral consciousness of Sri Aurobindo. 6. Advaitic view of consciousness. 7. Absolute and modified consciousness -- Advaitic and other view points. III. Freedom: 1. Freedom -- introduction. 2. Freedom -- a general discussion. 3. Freedom - existential point of view. 4. Freedom -- liberation / renunciation according to Indian views. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

"The purpose of this work is to carve out a path for achieving the integration of man, a multi-dimensional being, in the background of the three worlds -- physicality, physicality and spirituality. These three worlds are the different facets of man as a multi-dimensional being. His body is an extended substance of the physical world, his mind or inner self belongs to the psychical and moral world, and when man rises above his body and mind to realize the ultimate truth, he enters into the spiritual world. Full-fledged evolution of all these facets makes a man perfect. He then realizes that the said three worlds are linked together like gems on a string. In this work the author has tried to analyse the said three worlds and bind them into an integrated whole."