La mente diáfana- rústica : Historia del pensamiento indio

The clear mind explores over two thousand years of Indian thought. Beginning with the Vedic period, it embarks on a journey through the most important Indian philosophical traditions, such as the Upanishads and Samkhya, analyzing their dogma and the philosophical traces they leave on other schools of thought that develop throughout history. The journey delves into the great myths and symbols of Hindu devotion to explore its ways of life and social institutions; it engages with skeptics, materialists, and nihilists, who paved the way for the two great currents of heterodox thought: Buddhism and Jainism; it passes through the atomists and the logical realism of Nyaya; and it concludes with a synthesis of Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism, which bring this exploration of the history of Hindu thought to a close. This entire philosophical journey seeks to highlight a dominant idea in Indian thought: 'mental culture'. This idea, which the West attempted to revive with little success, posits a correspondence between the order of thought and the cosmic order—that is, between what happens in the mind and what happens out there, where the mind is capable of splitting itself in two and its habits ultimately determine the individual's destiny. Drawing on the history of Indian thought and this prevailing idea, Juan Arnau analyzes the fundamental ingredients of all great philosophy and succeeds in bringing India's most valuable legacy closer to the West.