Vedāntic Concept of life

Abstract

Before the advent of modern education, since time immemorial man had no problem in understanding the deeper concepts of God and Reality. The Vedāntic paradigm is wholistic with two perfect axiomatic 
truths which can be empirically verified, viz., ‘Life comes from Life’ and ‘Matter comes from Life’. These axioms also indicate that the non-dual or the advaya concept of Vedanta. The principle of nondualism can be understood in terms of the principle of degrees of self-determination. Plurality is accepted in the Vedāntic concept as real. Correspondingly in the western world there were great philosophers like Hegel, Plato and Aristotle who also held a wholistic view of life and came to the conclusion that soul is the first principle of life. Life constitutes a higher logic in nature irreducible to physics and chemistry.