Explain the connection between freedom and the principles of human action
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The present paper is an exercise in self-awareness and self-realization by a thoughtful human mind with regard to a very problematic but highly significant enigma of human life concerning the antinomy of freedom and determinism experienced in our concrete day-to-day living in the context of human behavior due to fragmented approach to life and Reality and need for the management of the same in a holistic framework. In this endeavor, we may derive helpful guidance and redemption from the deep insights and enlightening visions of Indian seers and sages. In a meaningful enterprise, the entire wide and variegated Reality is to be kept in view with the main focus on human existence. It has to be a holistic reflection from varied perspectives and multiple approaches. It has to be done with the objective of being benefited by it in shaping the cosmic and human existence for universal well-being. Naturally therefore the individual human existence, human society, natural environment, scientific and technological enterprises and socio-political organizations, etc., become crucial points in a purposeful deliberation. Consideration of deeper issues concerning these areas provides it practical orientation in the context of human life planning, social engineering, science policy and environmental stewardship.
Human Being as Highest Emergent
Human being is the highest emergent in the cosmic process so far. Shaped by genetic endowment, ecological interaction and cultural transformation human existence are multi-relational, multi-dimensional and multi-layered. It has individual, social and cosmic aspects in a holistic and organismic framework. It is intimately related with Nature, other human beings and non-human living species. Human identity, therefore, cannot be determined by any one of these facets alone in isolation from others; it is constituted by the totality and intricate unity of all of them.