{"id":2614,"date":"2025-05-13T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2614"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:05:48","slug":"biography-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2614","title":{"rendered":"biography-7"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t

PATH OF LIFE AND THOUGHT<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Several Panikkars or a continuity within diversity?<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

We cannot identify with our ideas. Ideas are important, but their importance is relative. If one is unable to overcome the dichotomy between Being and Thinking, between what one is and what one thinks, he becomes a slave of his thinking and eventually loses the Christian sense of existence. (La nova innoc\u00e8ncia)<\/p><\/blockquote>

It has sometimes been noted that there are \u201cseveral Panikkars\u201d, particularly two: a\u00a0 conservative, Catholic and Neothomist Panikkar, and a second Panikkar who experiences the convergence of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and secularity and brings forth a particularly valuable and original philosophy and theology .<\/p>

It is true that there is an evolution in Panikkar, from a traditionally Catholic and Neothomist position to the very broad perspective that takes him into interreligious and intrareligious dialogue; this second Panikkar is the most interesting and most prolific. But we cannot separate the young Panikkar from the mature Panikkar. His vital and intellectual journey can be regarded as \u201ca unique existence, kaleidoscopic and progressively accelerating\u201d, as Dr. Miquel Siguan put it.<\/p>

In spite of the profound transformations Panikkar has undergone, shaping the evolution of his thinking, I believe there is a continuity or a leitmotiv in it that can already be detected in his early writings: endeavouring to embrace all, to take responsibility for Man and to explore everything to its roots, striving to experience fullness in a constant search for harmony. Panikkar himself insists on this continuity in his thinking: \u201cMy great aspiration was and is to embrace, or rather to become (to live) reality in all its fullness\u201d (A Dwelling Place for Wisdom<\/em>).<\/p>

Key Panikkarian concepts like ontonomy and Christophany are already well-defined in the ’50s: \u201cEverything that I have written\u2026 can only be understood in relation to a fundamental insight of Being as a Christophany\u201d (\u201cMy Testament<\/em>\u201d, Cometas, 1954). Panikkar himself declared in an interview: \u201cI haven\u2019t experienced a road to Damascus, I haven\u2019t fallen from the horse\u2026 Life is lived\u2026 Life has been given to us\u2026 We are objectifying so much that we easily feel like heroes or feel in need of confession\u2026 To put it more philosophically: the great myth of the West is History\u2026 I don\u2019t write my history, I live it\u201d (\u00c9xodo, 65, 2002).<\/p>

In fact, if we compare Panikkar’s early writings with his later ones there is a marked evolution within this search for synthesis, harmony and fullness. This is due to a common human experience: to live is a dynamic process. If this dynamic process is denied or stalled, perhaps because we think we have reached absolute truth, there is a risk of falling into an intolerant fundamentalism.<\/p>


<\/strong>\u2981 <\/b><\/strong>Raimon Panikkar\u2019s Fourfold Identity >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> A Multicultural and Multireligious Origin. From Barcelona to Rome, via Bonn, Madrid and Salamanca (1918-1954) >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> India. Christian-Hindu-Buddhist symbiosis. Meeting Monchanin and Le Saux (1955-1966) >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> University teaching in California (1966-1987) >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> The return to his Catalan roots to complete his vital cycle >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> Raimon Panikkar: Writing as a Life-style >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0Several Panikkars or a continuity within diversity?<\/span><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> Panikkar as a Lecturer >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b> <\/strong>The return to the Source >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>

\u2981<\/b><\/strong> The\u00a0intellectual legacy >><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PATH OF LIFE AND THOUGHT Several Panikkars or a continuity within diversity? We cannot identify with our ideas. Ideas are important, but their importance is relative. If one is unable to overcome the dichotomy between Being and Thinking, between what one is and what one thinks, he becomes a slave of his thinking and eventually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2614","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5197,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2614\/revisions\/5197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}