Foreword
In the classical Indian tradition, philosophy is an applied discipline. It is pursued to elevate the human condition to new heights of excellence in being. Whether it is in Yoga or Vedanta, philosophy begins with an understanding of the existential conditions, the human predicament and the means of overcoming them for personal salvation as well as common good. It is this emphasis on the practicality of thought and application of ideas and not on ideas in abstract that led Western philosophers like Edmund Husserl (1965) to mock at oriental thought as mythico-religious in contrast to the Western thought engaged in analysis, abstraction and rational theory. Therefore, it is not surprising that Western philosophy, even when they asserted ...
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