Concepts of Space, Time, and Consciousness in Ancient India

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dc.creatorKak, Subhash
dc.date1999-03-04
dc.date1999-03-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:56:48Z
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dc.descriptionThis paper describes Indian ideas of the early-Purana/Mahabharata times (centuries BC) on the nature of space, time and consciousness that would be of interest to the physicist. In order to simplify references, we quote mainly from Yoga-Vasistha (YV), which is representative of that period of Indian thought. YV professes to be a book of instruction on the nature of consciousness but it has many fascinating passages on time, space, matter and cognition. This paper presents a random selection that has parallels with recent speculations in physics. It also presents a brief account of the context in which ideas of YV developed.
dc.description14 pages; with minor corrections and a few additional references
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9903010
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9903010
dc.identifierIn S. Kak, "The Wishing Tree", 2001 (Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, ISBN: 81-215-1032-5.)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/87751
dc.subjectHistory and Philosophy of Physics
dc.subjectPopular Physics
dc.titleConcepts of Space, Time, and Consciousness in Ancient India
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