A theory of the world
Making sense of the universe seems to be quite a tall order. There is too much diversity in the world, is it possible that behind all this diversity there is just a simple universal explanation. Thousands of years ago, Kapila who was perhaps the first known philosopher founded a school of thought called Samkhya, It has been almost forgotten, now but it influenced all philosophies of India that followed it, Vedanta, Yoga, Jainism, Buddhism. There is also a chapter in Geeta dedicated to Samkhya. Samkhya provides a very insightful theory of how the world works. The beauty of this theory is that it can be empirically verified by any human being by observing themselves, unlike scientific theories which take multiple years of study to understand and cannot be verified unless you have very expensive instruments. Here is that theory: There are two things in the universe 1. Attention and 2. Objects (Physical and Subtle) Physical objects are what appear to...