Thus, for example, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) at the Centre (formerly, the Ministry of Education), consists of four separate departments: the Department of Education, the Department of Culture, the Department of Women and Child Development and the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports. [...] How do you classify such a person? It is only in the Indian cosmology : Swati Dasgupta I I C Q U A R T E R L Y Histories of Indian philosophy have tended to begin with the Upanishads, and end around the sixteenth century, when Nimbarka and Vallabha, the last of the great thinkers who have written influential commentaries on the Upanishads, and whose ideas formed the basis of their respective philo. [...] The ideas of Nimbarka and Vallabha have shaped the ideas of the great mystic, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in Bengal, which in turn formed the crux of the International Sri Krishna Consciousness movement in late twentieth century. [...] The Islamic mystics, the Su s, de ned afresh the relationship between God and the individual, and expressed the idea of the merger of the soul in the godhead. [...] It was called ‘fana,’ and has close parallels to the ideas of the Bhakti saints from the Alwars and Nayamnars, and later of Kabir and Nanak.
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