DNA of Bharat the World Guru

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It is a matter of intense pleasure that Dr. Jaikaran Goel has Lauthored this book titled, DNA of Bharat: THE WORLD GURU. The book contains 18 chapters with each chapter dealing with a subject which is different from other chapters. Thus it can be described in a way as a multi-dimensional work. Dealt with the subject matter in a simple, lucid and scientific manner, the book is easily readable for the lay reader. On the one hand, the author has presented our old ethos and on the other, he deals with the subject through a modern approach. Thus, it is a combination of our ancient ethos and principles and our modern needs.

Lord Buddha's words 'bahujan hitay, bahujan sukhay' (for the good of everybody, for the happiness of all) was not merely quantitative, but qualitative as well.

The Indian view of life has refused to recognise the duality between matter and spirit. It is quite evident in the Upanishadic notion of 'panch koshas' (five sheaths). In modern times also, Sri Aurobindo tried to end the isolation of materialism from spirituality. Swami Vivekananda also said that food should precede metaphysics.

We know that the Western developmental thought is based upon fragmented, mechanistic, reductionist worldview based on the Cartesian-Newton ion philosophy. In this world, matter is regarded as the basis of all existence and the material world is taken as a multitude of separate parts assembled into a huge machine. Almost all modern disciplines of knowledge accept this mechanistic and reductionist worldview and have developed theories, models and concepts on the basis of it. But now modern scientific community is becoming aware of the limitations of this view and are realising that this worldview is in all respect incompatible, impractical, useless and destructive. Contrary to it, from the very beginning, Indian philosophers have acknowledged an integral, holistic worldview. Now, the recent discoveries in science have proved that the universe (cosmos) is an integrated, integral and holistic unit. Quantum physics now clearly states that in the universe, the parts that seem to be separate are not only deeply and intimately connected and knitted with each other, but are part and parcel of one another. Consequently, a new concept of unbroken wholeness has emerged which negates this traditional thought, making it possible to deliberate and analyse the universe by assuming that it as a sum total of different and separate parts. The country's wise men had already visualised this truth and that is why they stated that 'yatpinde tat brahmaande' (that which is in microcosm is also in the macrocosm). They believed that there is only one conscious element present in the whole world - 'sarvam khalwamidam brahamh. On the basis of it, it has been said that the individual, society and universe are not different and independent units, but the same single unit which is manifested at different levels. Among them, there exists an organic relationship.