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Vedic Meditation साक्षी or witness
The witness is one of the greatest discoveries of the Vedic Vedantic way of life
There is through all of life’s processes and happenings a constant witness who not only always watches all that is taking place but is also free
The Saakshi is not only passive but also a critical element in all of Vedic institutions such as Darshana, law, marriage, etc
But the witness is also full of wisdom and energy and is Agni. His flame is an eye eternally watching
He is present in all things, in the woods and the sky, in water and in earth. He is the secret life of all things even the most inert
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The word 'religion' has so many different connotations that it is impossible to give a precise definition. Theologians, philosophers, anthropologists, historians and atheists have all tried to define it variously according to their expertise and view points. I am not competent to review all these definitions, and I think that for our purpose such a comprehensive review is not necessary. All definitions are formulated with words which themselves need definitions. As soon as we leave the field of the material our language becomes incapable of providing us with clear-cut concepts and meanings.
Almost all definitions of religion speak of the belief in some super-natural being or power, in something that appears to be sacred or divine. The origin of such a belief may be the fear of the pre-scientific man facing the devastating nature which he did not understand and which was all-powerful, or it may be, as in the organized religions, belief in the revelation of some superhuman mystery. In all cases the central concept is belief. And belief, as it is ordinarily understood, is not founded on personal experience or experimentation. It is mostly the result of indoctrination, the handing down of traditional lore of which the veracity is unquestioned and unquestionable. For the critics of religious beliefs this attitude is irrational. But believers themselves defend their attitude by saying that reason is an uncertain means of knowledge; there is an insight greater than reason which can discover truths that, reason is incapable of knowing; the supernatural power or being uses seers and prophets possessing such insights to reveal itself to the ignorant humans. On hearing such statements the critic will immediately point out that there is here a second belief—belief in the words of the seer and the prophet.
Belief thus remains the mainstay of a religious man. Bertrand Russell, a great rationalistic critic of religion defines religion as "a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual." 1 Belief has a tremendous influence on the life and action of the religious man. Accepting, even if it be irrationally, the existence of transcendence or an absolute reality, he adopts an attitude in which he feels himself humble, ignorant and powerless to give meaning to life independently of the transcendence. And this attitude becomes extremely debilitating when religious scriptures and authorities he believes in, suggest that he is a sinner not by anything that he has done but by the very fact of his being born. He has no freedom of conduct, no freedom of thought, and finally often he has no freedom of belief; he believes, as he has been taught, in the religion that he is born in or that has been imposed upon him. And this leads him inevitably to regard the beliefs of others not belonging to his own creed as false which have to be replaced by 'the only true belief' or eradicated: this is a 'noble' act for saving the souls of those who have not seen the light.
We don't need to look back in time or far from home in order to see the justness of the above description. Fortunately, religion has also other meanings and ideals. Man, conscious sometimes of his imperfection, and more or less free from received ideas, who dared to ask questions to find out the meaning of existence, conceived a perfect supreme state of existence.
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“Indicators of basic structure: a functional critique of South Asian jurisprudence” AK Srivastava, A Jagtap, P Jain (Int’l J of Human Rights & Constitutional Studies, 2026)
A critical look at the Basic Structure Doctrine’s uneven application and limits across South Asian constitutions.
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