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The contributions of India: the seer-scientists and the renaissance in India.
The glorious heritage of India has been shaped and fostered from the Vedic and Upanishadic times. The Vedas are the earliest poetry and prose of humanity. The Upanishads have been described as the epic poems of self-knowledge, world-knowledge and God-knowledge. The vast galaxy of seer-scientists, philosopher-poets, savants and sages and the divine incarnations that traversed the paths of temporal knowledge-Apara Vidya and spiritual knowledge-Para Vidya have molded the Indian psyche and spiritual paths and left behind a rich and full history of thought that ranged from science, philosophy, religion and the living arts of man. They blossomed in an environment of respect and freedom of thought and expression and scientific inquiry. No new system of philosophy or spiritual knowledge came about or flourished unless the founder of the new system was thoroughly familiar and had carefully examined all the existing previous philosophies. Thus, the six systems of Indian philosophy-viz. Nyaya, Vaisesika, Sankhya, Jaina, Buddhist, Vedanta-dwaita and advaita-dualistic and...
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