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This episode discusses Ashish Dalela's latest book entitled “Conceiving the Inconceivable“, and topics surrounding the understanding of Vedanta philosophy, with special regard to the achintya-bheda-abheda understanding given by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The central contentious issue is whether reality is achintya or inconceivable, and if so, why should a book exist about something that cannot be understood? The short answer to that problem is that inconceivability arises due to the use of conventional logic, which is based on the distinctness of physical objects. The same reality becomes conceivable when we describe this world as concepts, however, the logic associated with this reality now violates the principles of classical logic, namely, the notions of identity (if A is B, then B is A), non-contradiction (both A and not-A cannot be true), mutual exclusion (both A and not-A can be false, or at least one of them must be true). The new logic of concepts requires us to admit new categories of “both” and “neither”, which makes this logic counterintuitive. But this problem is not unique to the understanding of soul and God, and applies to everything in Vedic philosophy — e.g. the understanding of material elements, the mind-body problem (or the soul-body problem), meaning in ordinary language, and so forth.

Relevant book to read:
Conceiving the Inconceivable - A Scientific Commentary to Vedanta Sutra
https://www.ashishdalela.com/books/conceiving-the-inconceivable/

#vedanta #philosophy

Shabda Podcast #13 - Conceiving the Inconceivable

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In this episode Ashish Dalela talks about the tripartite nature of the soul, how the soul's three aspects create inner conflicts, how the resolution of these conflicts requires choices about what to compromise, how these choices must be balanced over time, and how each situation requires the right kind compromise, these constitute the Vedic philosophical description of the soul.

Relevant book:
Emotion - A Soul-Based Theory of Its Origins and Mechanisms
https://www.ashishdalela.com/books/emotion/

#philosophy #vedic #satchitananda

Shabda Podcast #12 - What is the Soul?

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In this episode Ashish Dalela discusses how the world exists as a possibility, from which a reality is manifest. This manifest reality can then be known or experienced. But the manifest reality can be true, right, and good, or false, wrong, and bad. He then discusses how the difference between true, right, and good vs. the false, wrong, and bad is its incompleteness. When claims are incomplete, then to complete them, the opposite claims are incorporated, and these opposites then create cyclical change, as each opposite becomes dominant or subordinate. However, in the spiritual world, when the claims are complete, then the opposites are not required, and then the changes stop. Nevertheless, there is still "motion" which is different from "change". By understanding the difference between motion and change, we can grasp how the spiritual world is eternally active, and yet, it is different from the material world of changes.

Relevant book to read:
Emotion - A Soul-Based Theory of Its Origins and Mechanisms
https://www.ashishdalela.com/books/emotion/

#spiritual #philosophy #unmanifest

Shabda Podcast #11 - Truth, Existence, and Possibility

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In this episode Ashish Dalela speaks about the three aspects of God in Vedic philosophy, and how they encompass the basis on which everything else is understood in the world.

Relevant books:
Cosmic Theogony - The Personalization of Nature
https://www.ashishdalela.com/books/cosmic-theogony/

Six Causes - The Vedic Theory of Creation
https://www.ashishdalela.com/books/six-causes/

#God #Krishna #satchitananda

Shabda Podcast #10 - Why Is God a Person?

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