Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bring ultimate self-awareness and the eventual abandonment of physical pleasures. The acquisition of wealth (artha) and the enjoyment of sense pleasure (kama) -- contained within the broad limits of a moral law (dharma) which protects the weaker from the stronger -- are all legitimate occupations of men on the outward path...
Indian philosophy views self-realization as the purpose in life. During the life cycle, a soul moves toward greater awareness through evolution and involution, through a Path of Pursuit and a Path of Return. Men on the outward path assert their willfulness in the physical world and accumulate knowledge of its temporal objects and fleeting sensations. Through wisdom and meditation, men on the inward path gradually break down the separateness of the individual self, and realize their identification with the eternal, divine Self which is one with all of nature...
...Indian artist each thing in nature represents an individual ego reincarnated at a particular moment in its search for knowledge of the Self. Man is the turning point where the Path of Pursuit gradually yields to the Path of Return. Hence, both Hindus and Buddhists attach immeasurable importance to birth in human form...
...half-life: 2.8 days), technetium-99m (half-life: 6 hours) is produced, and it accumulates at the bottom of the tube (the cow's udder). The milked technetium can therefore be created only moments before it is put into a patient, and the doctor can scan its internal path while it is most active; yet within 24 hours, it will have decayed to an undangerous one-sixteenth of its former self. Since patients are far safer, they can take many more such tests, thus vastly multiplying the data with which doctors can find out what is wrong and perhaps...
...penetrate the dense structure of the pyramid and pass through the spark chamber, a device consisting of two horizontal pairs of oppositely charged metal plates. Be cause the muon leaves a wake of ionized gas, which conducts electricity, a spark will jump between each pair of plates along the path of the particle...