Experiencing the integrity of life as experience of world in man's existence

Experiencing the integrity of life as experience of world in man's existence

Man lives in the world, though in phenomenological sense the world is discovered throughout the human being, rather than on the contrary, and it is discovered in particular experience - in experiencing the integrity of life. It is here where the primary principles of the description of world are put. Thus, in order to detect the fundamental principle of the image of the world in human existence, it is necessary to turn to phenomenological analysis of experiencing the integrity of life per se, which is such a usual and common reality that it can be noticed only in the situation of its deprivation.

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Bhagavad Gita trial in Russia

Bhagavad Gita trial in Russia

Summary of articles by Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service http://www.forum18.org

Viktor Fedotov, Tomsk's Prosecutor, asked the city's Lenin District Court to rule the third Russian edition of the Bhagavad-Gita As it Is extremist. The book is a Russian edition of a translation by Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. An "expert analysis" completed in October 2010 by three academics at Tomsk State University – Sergei Avanesov, Valeri Svistunov and Valeri Naumov at the request of FSB security service officer Dmitry Velikotsky found that the book "contains signs of incitement of religious hatred and humiliation of an individual based on gender, race, ethnicity, language, origin or attitude to religion", he said. The analysis claimed the book humiliated those who did not believe in or even know about Krishna or follow Krishna's teachings. It claimed that the author propagated the exclusivity and superiority of his faith and was hostile, insulting and humiliating about other faiths. It also claimed that the author called for hostile or violent acts against women and non-Hare Krishna devotees.

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