Understanding Consciousness : Recent Advances

Author: Swami SarvabhutanandaEminent Contributors/Publisher: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of CultureYear: 2009Language: EnglishPages: 469ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788187332541 DescriptionThis volume consists of fifteen papers and the discussions thereon at the fourth biennial International Seminar on Consciousness held at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, in January 2008. The participants included not only philosophers and scientists but also mystics. Their illuminating paper will be read with profit and pleasure by scholars and lay persons alike. It is hoped that this volume will be as well received as the three earlier volumes.A Profound Backgrounder: Sri Ramakrishna showed through his own experience that consciousness as cit or caitanya is one and undivided, and it is transcendent consciousness that has become immanent consciousness. In order to realize Brahman as transcendent consciousness it is at first necessary to negate the world as neti, neti, ‘not th