BEING AND BECOMING

Trust the unknown path unfolding within you Every step is destiny Every breath is life Arrival is a mistake Departure is a myth Path is moving like time It moves but go nowhere Its rhythmic dance creates and engulfs Its own progeny  It has no beginning and no end Time is Life It was and it will be forever We are the stream flowing like rivers We are the ocean and its sublime heart Wonder! Wonder! Wonder!  O my beloved mind The beauty of the world And Its chaotic harmony  Witness O mind the ever present eternity In the movement of breath And the shifting clouds of thoughts

I Introduction This blog explores the foundational concepts of Krishnachandra Bhattacharya’s seminal work, The Subject as Freedom. It examines Bhattacharya’s unique phenomenological and metaphysical approach to subjectivity, defined primarily as the progressive realization of freedom from the "object." By analyzing the stages of subjectivity, bodily, psychic, and spiritual, the blog elucidates how the subject moves from identification with the external world to the pure self-evidence of the "I." The study highlights the distinction between meant and unmeant contents, the role of introspection as a knowing function, and the ultimate realization of the subject as absolute freedom. II The Fundamental Distinction: Subject-Object In Bhattacharya’s philosophy, the starting point of inquiry is the distinction between the "object" and the "subject". The object is defined as that which is "meant," encompassing the contents of sense-perception an...

I  Introduction In the opening pages of his magnum opus, Being and Time, Martin Heidegger resurrects a question he argues has been buried for millennia, framing his entire project with an epigraph from Plato’s Sophist: “For manifestly you have long been aware of what you mean when you use the expression ‘being’. We, however, who used to think we understood it, have now become perplexed.” This is no mere academic exercise but a deliberate reawakening of what Heidegger argues is the most fundamental and, paradoxically, the most forgotten question in the history of Western thought. For Heidegger, a pervasive “forgetfulness of Being” has characterized philosophy since antiquity, where the initial, vibrant inquiry into what it means “to be” solidified into a series of unexamined dogmas. The question was not answered and then set aside; rather, it fell into obscurity, concealed by the very traditions that were supposed to preserve it. This blog argues that Heidegger's critical "dest...

Disappearance of questions is the pre-condition of artificial certainty. Therefore, it is profitable investment to establish and sustain the belief industry. This industry produces the efficient Man whose substratum is not the divine soul or mental faculty but a non-thinking mind which militantly conform the group solidarity of the masses. When answers are easily available and generated by the Artificial Intelligence, who will take the pain for thinking and unthinking or deliberating to develop logical capacity or for establishing the paradigm of truth? As Ashis Nandy explains the creative process which requires to meditate with the questions and to remain with the questions for a longer period of time to create and unveil the mask of deception. The artistry in epistemic creativity necessitates the patience caring of the questions. The cultivation and exploration of questions and mitigated skepticism to unravel what is said and unsaid, the expressions and silences. Even so called Dark ...

I Introduction: Situating the Critique of Western Modernity In an era defined by rapid technological acceleration and deepening socio-political divides, a critical examination of the foundational philosophical tenets of Western modernity is not merely an academic exercise but a strategic necessity. It is within this context that Boaventura de Sousa Santos, an Emeritus Professor of Sociology, offers a potent and timely intervention. In his work, "I do not think, therefore I am," Santos presents a compelling critique that inverts Descartes' famous dictum to diagnose a profound contemporary crisis. The text's central thesis posits that the core principles of Western modernity, derived from Cartesian philosophy, are not only historically and culturally situated as Eurocentric but have degenerated into a pathological contemporary state. This state is marked by the dominance of neoliberal individualism, a "great disarmament" of cognitive and critical faculties, an...

I Introduction: Bridging Physiology and Psychology William James, in his landmark work The Principles of Psychology, provides a foundational framework connecting the brain's physiological mechanisms to the purposive, selective, and unified nature of conscious mental life. This blog analyzes James’s synthesis, which grounds psychological phenomena in the material workings of the nervous system without reducing consciousness to a mere epiphenomenon. We will explore his hierarchical model of the brain, which evolves from simple reflex actions in the lower nerve centers to the complex, deliberative functions of the cerebrum. Key themes include the role of the cerebrum as an organ of foresight and prudence, the physiological mechanism of habit as the process by which experience physically imprints itself upon the brain’s plastic matter, and consciousness's essential function as a “selecting agency” that is causally efficacious in steering the organism toward its own interests. Ultim...