Table of contents : Matter, life, mind : unity of the world. Discussion on the lecture of J.N. Mohanty Consciousness : mundane and transcendental Perspectives on consciousness Description and interpretation as possibilities in phenomenology Application and interpretation Phenomenological rationality and overcoming of relativism. Postscript : reason, transversal and vertical Idealism and the quantum mechanics Delving into the depths of consciousness Time and eternity The critique of historicism Secularism and enlightenment in Indian context Science and poetry, fact and value Intentionality, meaning, and open-endedness of interpretation