Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
How does the Veda describe the journey of man? And see man?
1) The battle between light and dark. The yajna in this sense may be seen as the invocation of devas or beings of Light and establishing them in one’s own body
The battle with the dark is also with that of duality or ignorance and limitations of ego. The devas fight for the seeker as allies and personalities: it is my humble opinion that the personalities of the devas are also the divinized personality of the growing Rishi which is how the devas are often depicted and seen: as individuals or entities in the universal manifestation, in the space between pure self and vyaktitva
2) Adhvarya: or the Journey (adhva is the straight path) which also means the Yajna without violence. The journey of the seeker maybe described across the ocean in a ship or Rocky Mountains, Adri
3) Arya or the self refinement and becoming noble. Ari- is to dig, Arya is the ancient ideal of self possession and development. An Arya is the one who has refined himself or herself and become worthy of the devas
Thus, Man or Manu the thinker is the grand warrior, the traveler, the self-realizing one. This is the Vedic ideal
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Thomas Sowell, in A Conflict of Visions, proposed a theory of the conflicting convictions about human nature that underlie the standard left-wing and right-wing views on economics, politics, & culture. (I discussed his ideas in the chapter on politics in The Blank Slate). Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil probes Sowell's theory in a new post: "We Are Stuck With Human Nature, Not Human Ignorance" open.substack.com/pub/conspicuou…
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How did Kolkata Marwaris fare in revolutionary freedom fight, while living in its epicenter? Read Section E.1 sringeribelur.com/was-g-d-birla-…
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Continuing to read Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer, and The Better Angels of our nature, by Steven Pinker.
The two are connected as both look at violence and its expressions...
Trying to understand why.
Why can't there be peace, harmony, love, kindness for all beings?
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Read this if you haven't, mam. You might be interested. Animals as Experiencing Entities.
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I sometimes think they said the quiet part out loud," Arundhati Roy told Supriya Sharma.
"All of us thought those things, but were not able to say it. You can’t say it as an individual, but in a crowd, what’s going to stop them."
Full interview: https://scroll.in/article/1094667/arundhati-roy-ive-been-angry-for-a-long-time-but-i-laugh-with-anger-as-did-those-students
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