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and human suffering, though in general have expressed their wise that suffering in cosmic
terms, we realize, on reading them with due attention, they thought of human suffering as
a "becoming" is "conditioned by the structures of temporality. We have tried and that
problem (Symbolisme religieux et angoisse, collective volume. Goisse L'an-du temps
present et les devoirs de l'esprit. Inter-national meetings in Geneva, 1953) and we shall
return to it. What the modern Western philosophy called "being in situation", "consist of
temporality and historicity," is to-parallel in Indian thought "existence in the Maya." If
you reach-ing to approve the two horizons flosoficos-Indian and western-everything India
from thinking about the Maya offers some today for us. We will realize this when
reading, for example, the Bhagavad-Gita, the andlisis of human existence takes place in a
language that is familiar: the illusion Maya is not only cos-economic, but also and
primarily historical, not only existence in the eternal cosmic evolution, but especially life
in the Tieme-po and in history. Bhagavad-Gita for the problem arose, just as in
Christianity, in these terms: HOW you solve the paradoxical situation created by the dual
fact that the man on the one hand, is in the time devoted to history Std and on the other
side knows that SERD "doomed" if they become consumed with the temporality and
historicity, and that, therefore, must find at any price, in the world, a path leading to a
trans-historical and a-plan temporary? It leerd mds forward the discussion of the
problems posed by the Bhagavad-Gita, but noted that they all represent different
solutions applica-tions of Yoga.
Thus we find here too, Yoga. Indeed, the third point above mds, concerning Western
philosophy, namely the solution proposed by India to trigger panic-nothing for the
discovery of our temporality and historicity, the means by which one can remain in the
world without being "consumed" by Time and by history, the answers provided by Indian
thought imply mds or less directly, some knowledge of yoga. We calculate, therefore, the
interest it represents for European scholars and philosophers, familiarity with this
problem. Again, it is not accepted, quite simply, one of the solutions offered by India.
Spiritual value, not acquired as a new brand of automotive vile. Above all, there is neither
philosophical nor syncretism "Hinduization", let alone for this heinous hybridity
"spiritual" inaugu-pared by the Theosophical Society and continued, aggravated by the
Innu merables pseudo-morph contempordneas. The problem is com-plicated mds: it is
important to know and understand a thought that occupies a front row position in the
history of universal spirituality. It is important to know now, because on the one hand, it
is now, having been overtaken by the rhythm of His-tory all cultural provincialism, we
are compelled-both Europeans and non Europeans to think in terms of World History and
forge universal spiritual values and, moreover, is only now that the problem of the
situation of man in the world dominates the European philosophical consciousness. Now
this problem is super-carriers at the heart of Indian thought. Perhaps the philosophical
didlogo behave, especially at first, some disappointments: many researchers and
philosophers consider podrdn western Indian andlisis a little simplistic, and ineffective
solutions proposals. All technical terminology tax-true tradition is spiritual, not without a
lexicon: it is possible that such western philosophers regard as outmoded, rough,
damaged the Indian philosophical lexicon. But these risks are minor didlogo. Major
findings of aca-bardn Indian thought to be recognized, under the guise of philosophical
lexicon, and despite the. It is impossible, for instance, no notice of one of the great
discoveries mds India: the witness-consciousness, self awareness of their physiological