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    Essential Philosophy: Problems of Life
    Essential Philosophy: Problems of Life
    Essential Philosophy: Problems of Life
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    Essential Philosophy: Problems of Life

    By Raja Sharma

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    The opposites are very vehemently discussed and argued but the possibilities which lie between the opposites are almost never discussed. This is my area of exploration and I am deeply interested in them because they bring out something remarkable and it adds to my understanding of the world and living beings.

    Life and death are the two opposites and everyone knows about it but what about the possibilities between the two. You will say that the period between the two is living with your life and I agree but my mind does not accept it because there are many phases in your life when you are only breathing in and breathing out. There are many changing scenes and many ups and downs. Life and death are studied as opposites but those millions of possibilities are mostly ignored which lie between them. What would you say when you find a person lying in coma for more than ten years? One day he opens his eyes and asks about his pen which he had left on the table in his room. How would you explain that he had kept that pen ten years before? How are you going to describe those ten years? What was happening to him during those ten years? Was he alive? Or was he partially alive? Or was he half dead? Or was he dead to some greater degree? Neither you nor your doctors or scientists can explain.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateDec 31, 2011
    ISBN9781465826497
    Essential Philosophy: Problems of Life
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Essential Philosophy - Raja Sharma

      Essential Philosophy: Problems of Life

      By Raja Sharma

      Copyright@2011 Raja Sharma

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      Chapter One

      If you try to understand existence, you will find that there is nothing which can be called single, one, unique on its own. It can be unique and single only because there is an opposite of it. The entire existence is paradoxical and this very thing is the most significant. Everything has been balanced very methodically and beautifully: day is there because there is night, light is there because there is absence of light or darkness, height is there because there is depth, and if you able to learn how to balance the opposites, you gradually become capable of knowing the mysteries of life, existence, and godliness. The art of balancing is to be understood and adopted in this life. Existence is infinite, Universe is infinite, god is infinite, but the things which make this existence are there in paradoxes. This is the most beautiful thing of the existence. You give importance to breathing in but you take breathing out for granted.

      There are many philosophic logics which define life through their own way: Aristotle’s logic presents linear, one dimensional view of life. Likewise many other philosophers believe that logic is linear but actually they are following a fallacy because everything happening around us is present in paradoxes. The process of life is actually a meeting of the opposites. There is always a conflict between the opposites but finally there is always a meeting of the opposites. You are born and life begins but at the same time death begins to happen because you begin to die every second. Finally there is an unknown and mysterious confluence of the two energies: life and death.

      You say that you are alive but you can’t explain life because it is only happening to you hand in hand with death but when a man dies, happening stops and two energies mysteriously remain undefined. We simply say that this or that man is dead. We know that every living being is dying every second but we don’t say it or we don’t want to say it because we are deeply attached to one and that one is life. We disregard the opposite, death, but when the last moments arrive, I believe, the person who is going to die definitely understands that he had lived vainly without understanding the opposites because

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