#Ancient Culture ( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-1.8 : Swami Krishnananda
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#OPINION : 03/01/2020 : 2009.
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Why is it necessary for you to be social with other people?
It is because in order to survive, you require the collaboration and cooperation of other people.
You want other people to cooperate with you and help you whenever necessary, but why should they help you if there is no connection between you and other people?
The necessary connection between you and other people for the purpose of a reasonably comfortable existence and even survival is the sociability that we are chalking out.
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All these are a part and parcel of cultural behaviour, and whatever words I spoke to you today form a kind of base which is partly psychological, partly sociological, and perhaps to some extent it is even philosophical. Culture, therefore, is partly psychological, partly sociological, partly philosophical.
Why is it so?
It is psychological because you are involved in it, it is sociological because other people are involved in it, and it is philosophical because life is involved in something which is more than yourself and other people. A transcendent element controls the destiny of the whole world. That comes under the theme of philosophy. Cultural studies generally include psychological studies, sociological studies and philosophical studies.
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In this course regarding India’s ancient heritage, the scheme that I will follow is something like this. Firstly, I have mentioned a basic factor: how we have to start thinking at all before we start thinking of culture. And I have also said something about what culture is in its essentiality.
Now, inasmuch as we have used the words ‘India’s ancient culture’, it will also have something historical about it.
So apart from the three factors I mentioned – psychology, sociology and philosophy – we may have to add a fourth subject now, called history. In connection with this particular subject, there will be India’s ancient history over and above psychology, sociology and philosophy. It is a very vast subject.
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I will not be following any particular book though what I will be telling you will be in these books, especially Aurobindo’s Foundations of Indian Culture. My book will be in my mind only; I don’t have any book. Today I close and I thank you very much for being with me here, and I shall see you tomorrow morning.
Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture (SAMSKARAM)
ENDS HERE
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NEXT : The Evolution of Culture(SAMSKARAM)
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JAY HIND
JAY BHARATHAM'
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.
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#OPINION : 03/01/2020 : 2009.
#Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture ( Samskaram ) - 8.
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Why is it necessary for you to be social with other people?
It is because in order to survive, you require the collaboration and cooperation of other people.
You want other people to cooperate with you and help you whenever necessary, but why should they help you if there is no connection between you and other people?
The necessary connection between you and other people for the purpose of a reasonably comfortable existence and even survival is the sociability that we are chalking out.
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2.
All these are a part and parcel of cultural behaviour, and whatever words I spoke to you today form a kind of base which is partly psychological, partly sociological, and perhaps to some extent it is even philosophical. Culture, therefore, is partly psychological, partly sociological, partly philosophical.
Why is it so?
It is psychological because you are involved in it, it is sociological because other people are involved in it, and it is philosophical because life is involved in something which is more than yourself and other people. A transcendent element controls the destiny of the whole world. That comes under the theme of philosophy. Cultural studies generally include psychological studies, sociological studies and philosophical studies.
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Now, inasmuch as we have used the words ‘India’s ancient culture’, it will also have something historical about it.
So apart from the three factors I mentioned – psychology, sociology and philosophy – we may have to add a fourth subject now, called history. In connection with this particular subject, there will be India’s ancient history over and above psychology, sociology and philosophy. It is a very vast subject.
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4.
I will not be following any particular book though what I will be telling you will be in these books, especially Aurobindo’s Foundations of Indian Culture. My book will be in my mind only; I don’t have any book. Today I close and I thank you very much for being with me here, and I shall see you tomorrow morning.
Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture (SAMSKARAM)
ENDS HERE
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NEXT : The Evolution of Culture(SAMSKARAM)
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JAY HIND
JAY BHARATHAM'
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.
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