caa a22 4500 469025247 CHVBK 20180323132728.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00241208 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00241208 Singh Rana Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, UP, India aut Nature and cosmic integrity a search in Hindu geographical thought [Elektronische Daten] [Rana Singh] The roots of Hindu geographic thought can be traced to the remote past, going back at least to c. 3500 BC. Formerly the unity of Nature and Man was expressed in the context of religious activities. The idea of nature and human integrity in Hindu thought depends upon ways in which people see and experience themselves, their sense of attachment to nature, and their ways of maintaining this. It is through symbolism, the main expression of mythological understanding, that one can gain insight into the relationships of humanity to Nature. Creation and incarnation myths describe the origin of organic life and of its five basic elements. The integrity of dwelling in space is expressed through the notion of home. Religion plays a vital role in the Hindu quest for harmony between nature and humanity. Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both (Capra 1976, p. 297). Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/2(1992-02-01), 139-147 0343-2521 26:2<139 1992 26 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00241208 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00241208 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Singh Rana Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221 005, UP, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/2(1992-02-01), 139-147 0343-2521 26:2<139 1992 26 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer