Man's Love for God (An Old and Rare Book)

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Pritam Sen, born in 1915 at Dehra Dun, received Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics under Professor HA. Bethe at Cornell University, Ithaca, in 1942 and was member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, under Professor JR. Oppenheimer in 1950-51. He has worked at several universities and he began to study philosophy after retirement. He came to Pondicherry in 1992 where his works, Axiomatic Philosophy and God's Love in Upanishad Philosophies (a Bhavan's Publication), have been published the final work on God's Love, Brahman's Love, is in course of preparation.

The attributes of Man's Love for God in the Philosophy of God's Love are manifestation, love's joy and sorrow. Compassion and grace, friendship, freedom, faith, beauty, harmony, devotion and surrender. They have a more detailed and rational description of the Srimad Bhagavata and Narad Sutra statements of devotion. The proper conduct for them towards the fulfilment of the world purpose, to love and be loved by Him, is obtained. To make it self-evident their course is followed step by step as they prevail in the world, as they are practised by men, lovers and devotees. Then, finally. His participation in them is intuited in accordance with the love equality between His manifest and human love to obtain the consummation of love among them.

Philosophy strives to comprehend the whole world process, to discover the postulates from which its structure can be derived by logical analysis. It considers the creation of the universe, the evolution of galaxies, suns and stars, their vast motions extending towards the frontiers of space and time, the earth and its revolution around the sun and its axis. It considers the formation of recurrent seasons, of oceans and mountains, the birth of passionful life with million facets, the struggle for survival, the inevitable death. The evolution of man and his rich endowments. It considers the origin and the eventual dissolution, the purpose of movements and activity of the world, its light and darkness. Rain and sunshine, outbursts of life, joy and sorrow, passion and love, knowledge and ignorance. It aspires to unite the whole of this data into simple laws, realise their significance and obtain the proper conduct for man from the postulates that it has discovered. Philosophy realises that the world process is not random, that evolution is purposeful, that there is evident an established order in it, that it is striving ceaselessly towards the fulfilment of its purpose. The birth of life is achieved by the combination of hundred delicate balances and refinements that man cannot yet obtain in his chemical laboratories and it is not a one in a million chance occurrence. Life could not have survived the slightest variation in them which would have certainly disrupted it. The evolution of man from plant and animal life displays the clock like precision of an organised and relentless mechanism. The physical evolution of the world process is determined by rational laws and their remarkable structure. Mutual cohesion and yet self-evident simplicity indicate the presence of a pure-consciousness pure-joy that is aware of all without the need of manifest forms rather than a chance encounter. Man aspires to combine together world's origin and purpose with the physical and biological laws into metaphysical laws which, even though they can neither be proved nor disproved, indicate its origin purpose and evolution to provide a basis of the evident world order and harmony.