• Dr. Anita Shaw
• NIL

Radhakrishnan located his metaphysics within the Advaita (non-dual) Vedanta tradition (sampradaya). I like to focus on Radhakrishnan’s understanding of intuition and his interpretations of experience. For Radhakrishnan, intuition is an “integral experience”. Intuition is integral in the sense that it coordinates and synthesizes all other experiences and the results of the experience are integrated into the life of the individual. Moreover, intuition is integral as it forms the basis of all other experiences. Intuition is self-established (svataḥsiddha), self-evidencing (svāsaṃvedya), and self-luminous (svayaṃ-prakās). According to Radhakrishnan the other forms of experiences are cognitive, psychic, aesthetic, ethical and religious. Radhakrishnan recognizes three categories of cognitive experience: sense experience, discursive reasoning, and intuitive apprehension. In a bold declaration, Radhakrishnan believes that the “facts of telepathy prove that one mind can communicate with another directly”. Experience of an artist is ineffable, the challenge for the artist is to give the experience concrete expression. For Radhakrishnan, true art is an expression of the whole personality, seized as it was with the creative impulse of the universe. There is a ‘scientific’ and ‘experimental’ dimension to Radhakrishnan’s understanding of ethical behaviour. Those whose lives are profoundly transformed and who are guided by the ethical experience are moral heroes. Religions represent the various interpretations of experience, while integral experience is the essence of all religions. With this, the present discussion of intuition and the varieties of experience has come full circle. Radhakrishnan identifies intuition — in all its contextual varieties — with integral experience.

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"Intuition includes Experience—an explanation after S. Radhakrishnan", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no.1155-1158, September 2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009453.pdf

"Intuition includes Experience—an explanation after S. Radhakrishnan", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no. pp1155-1158, September 2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009453.pdf