Bhagavad-Gita's
Model of the Self and Its Testability
U. Darbar |
Bhagavad-Gita's
model of the self is presented with a view to exploring it's testability.
Bhagavad-Gita presents a logically consistent and precisely defined
conceptualization of the self with the potential of expanding current
psychological theories of the self. However this conception of the
self is outside the range of the hypothetico-deductive approach.
It would be unscientific to not investigate Bhagavad-Gita's model
simply because of the limitation of the hypothetico-deductive approach.
This paper proposes that Bhagavad-Gita's inherent non-mechanistic
method of self-realization namely Bhakti-Yoga may offer a viable
means to test it's model of the self.
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