INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

COMPLETE WORKS OF DR K.C.VARADACHARI – VOL10
the human consciousness as it is. The trend that
registered itself as important in recent times was the
linguistic analysis of sentences which condemned
outright all metaphysical statements as meaningless
because they were not current in daily speech and
verifiable in the sensory or emotive way. This has found
favour also among some Indian thinkers who have held
that philosophy must be expressed in the language of
the people, loka, the only world of discourse that
merchants and common people know and live in.
Perhaps the technical jargon of philosophy as of other
sciences is sheer nonsense, more so for a philosophy
going beyond the sensory and emotional intellectual
universe which uses the way of knowing by difference
rather than by transcendence and spiritual oneness.
This criticism is unassailable but false.
There are more things in nature than philosophy
dreams of. Reality is more than human thought. One of
the most adventurous things or enterprises for man
himself is to attempt to go beyond himself. Religion and
mysticism show the way towards transcendence of the
human even as society shows the way to
transcendence of the personal and the private and
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