| Man , being a conscious creature , lives his life not | | | | self-introspection to know the Self, as it helps one |
| only to survive on the Earth but to make the best of | | | | spiritually realize not only the empirical existence but |
| his self-developed or self-experienced concept , | | | | also the Eternal. Philosophy comes from no where |
| giving rise to civilization and culture , custom and | | | | but is an outcome of Man's self-intuition, when he |
| tradition , habits and manners , morals and ideologies , | | | | wants to know about transcendental matters in a |
| religion and community. This concept which man | | | | reflective state of mind. Verbal combat such as |
| develops consciously or unconsciously for himself | | | | theorizing and lecturing are just intellectual exercises |
| gives the basic foundation to his life as a theory of | | | | and are of no value at all. Feeling the truth and |
| the of the world and the individual and an art of living | | | | practicing it in life is all about the importance of |
| social or national life even on discordant notes , and | | | | philosophy in life. Knowing about the Self is beyond |
| thus shaping his whole attitude to life , it gives | | | | the approach of the science and the scientists who |
| expression to the whole animated world .This | | | | pride themselves on their inventions and discoveries, |
| concept is nothing but the philosophy of life without | | | | have come to realize that their success is confined to |
| which Man is none but a frog lying deep in the mud . | | | | the knowledge and observation which are unable to |
| Hence we can say that each and every man | | | | take them to the ultimate cause lying beyond their |
| whether educated or uneducated, has his own | | | | common reasoning and calculation. A well known |
| philosophy based either on his personal experiences | | | | scientist, Eddington remarks that scientists have |
| or on one borrowed from others. But to live life in | | | | chased the solid substance from the continuous liquid |
| totality, Man needs a philosophy based on universal | | | | to the atom, from the atom to the electron, and |
| experiences, leading him from the finite to the infinite. | | | | there they have lost it. |
| For the establishment of good and perpetual | | | | Some people believe that philosophy has no practical |
| coordination between human life and nature, it is | | | | importance because it deals with such a thing which is |
| indispensable to scrutinize life and the universe as a | | | | beyond our perceptibility and understanding of |
| whole with reference to the ultimate cause well | | | | day-to-day life .Actually it talks about the Self and |
| manifest in all existence. And philosophy is the most | | | | the Absolute which are not possible for a mortal like |
| efficient attempt in this direction, making an impartial | | | | Man to know in an ordained period of time . They |
| approach to all problems and aspects of life and | | | | say like that because they are suffering from dualistic |
| existence .It, being the ground of all knowledge and | | | | intuition which is capable only to reason with the |
| experience, helps us explore into our life in terms of | | | | present state of mind and not to establish and justify |
| its extent, nature and value. The perfection of life | | | | the pursuit for the highest goal .In fact , they need |
| ,the quest of Truth , the cultivation of righteousness | | | | to have an integral intuition , guiding them to accept |
| , the attainment of freedom and bliss , and the | | | | philosophy in life to attain God , freedom , and |
| appreciation of beauty are the points which creates | | | | immortality .Today Man on earth is living the life of a |
| the hub of philosophy and thereby make a viable | | | | hunter who is chasing his quarry in the wilderness of |
| fetus casketing the whole cosmos. Therefore, we | | | | the hedonistic world beyond which lies the sweet |
| can say it is philosophy which sums up the whole life | | | | plum whose taste is even more ecstatic than the |
| and without it life is just like an unexplored island. | | | | joyful feeling following his success in the present |
| No doubt, philosophy is the greatest need of life, but | | | | search . As a result, the present search of science is |
| philosophical knowledge in true sense of the term | | | | unable to unfold nature to the infinite. Hence science |
| cannot be had through sense-experience which is | | | | based on senses and reason must be allowed to go |
| confined just to appearances. In this context, Hegel | | | | further into philosophy based on integral intuition, |
| says that philosophy is the knowledge of that which | | | | which opens the door to mysticism and helps man |
| is eternal, of God is, and what flows out His nature. | | | | envisage the Truth. |
| The purpose of philosophy given by Hegel is already | | | | It is quite evident here that philosophy is the best |
| ingrained at best in the Vedanta which offers a | | | | kind of healing which doesn't only soothe our body |
| cornucopia of knowledge and wisdom, unfolding the | | | | and mind but also removes the cataract of ignorance |
| real and sacred lore of the Eternal. According to | | | | to see the Truth. Thus philosophy is an elixir which |
| Swami Sivananda, the true philosophy is based on | | | | spurs us to wake up from our dogmatic slumber |
| intuition and is meant to justify rationally one's faith in | | | | which seems to have sealed our spirits. |
| Truth. That is to say, learning philosophy is having a | | | | |