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 eyes, you can easily show two or more totally different meanings in the photograph. By changing the frame the meaning can be changed. Many jokes and puzzles are an outcome of changing of the frame. Change of frame becomes change in the meaning. When we select a frame for a picture, we draw a mental line that decides what is included and what is excluded. What is in your mind decides what is to be included and what is to be excluded. Frame of mind really determines what is the meaning of your picture. In fact you are adding this frame as a comment on the physical reality present before your eyes at any given point of time. The potential greatness or distinction of the photographer lies in choosing this selection of frame.

When an ordinary picture of natural reality can add and express, different meanings in the external reality by changing angle, or frame, then you can understand what Darsana you are having about What is Truth? Who am I? What is world? What is my relation to my society? How much am I connected? What is the connecting thread, What is it? Such are the basic philosophical problems. One’can only imagine what kind of changes in the world will be possible if we change the ideological frames. Managers above all, they must accept that these paradigm shifts are necessary in the field of People Management.

Indian philosophy states that One truth can be seen by many from different ways. Possibility of Many views is the crucial point

In India there are six main Darsanas besides many others subsidiary ones. New Darsanas can be added. Number of Darsanas is not restricted by a finite quantity. New Manus will come and they will have new Darsanas, and they will continue to express them in their own way. Thus the flow of philosophy in India is like the flow of Ganga. It is durable and permanent and still changing every second. This is a special attribute of Indian Philosophy. In the book bound (Kitabi) religions, Ekam Sat is accepted but they do not accept these different views, Bahu-dha Vadanti is not accepted. In a fixed perspective change is not acceptable.

In Western or Christian philosophical thought God and Individual are accepted as two entities. God does everything, HE is the karta behind all that happens in the world, HE is omniscient, omnipotent and HIS edicts, orders and values cannot be transgressed. All these orders or edicts, values and norms have been communicated by God through his prophet or the Messenger. All this is recorded in the Bible and it is a source book of Philosophy. Anything against the Bible is apostasy. Interpretation of this Book as interpreted by Pope, who represents Jesus, is binding on all Roman Catholics. Protestant Christians do not accept this infallibility of the Pope but they accept the base of Bible as the Book. Jews accept part of

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