TITLE :

Expanding Frontiers of Knowledge

AUTHOR :

Balaganapathy Devarakonda

ABSTRACT :

The pursuit of knowledge is a journey from the known to the unknown, that is depicted as a movement from untruth to truth, darkness to light, and death to immortality. This is envisaged by the seers of Vedic knowledge in the form of a hymn to be sung every day for the development of the individual. This was considered to be the way to peaceful human coexistence.
The above hymn of peace (Shānti mantra) from Brihadāranyaka Upanishad (1.3.28) explains the nature of knowledge in terms of the distinction between truth, light and immortality with untruth, darkness and death. The movement from untruth to truth is metaphysical, reaching out to the light from darkness is epistemology, and the crusade from death to immortality is ontology. Knowledge is a journey towards metaphysical truth through the instrumentality of light in establishing the relation of the being. This signified the nature of knowledge and thus indirectly drew the frontiers of knowledge through the classical Indian tradition of Vedas. Let us explore further the nature of knowledge from different perspectives.

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.52253/vjta.2023.v04i01.01

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