Out of the Trap: Selected Essays by Alan Watts

Author:Alan Watts [Watts, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780897081474
Google: nUqEAAAACAAJ
Published: 2019-10-13T21:24:58+00:00

OUT OF THE TRAP

Veda is our word video, videre-to see. Vid is knowledge.

And so, the most ancient scriptures of India are called veda, or vision, you see. They are poems in a mythological form, and the Upanishads constitute veda, anta, that is to say , nThe completion of the vision, ” and they tell you the secret-the inner meaning that underlies the mythology.

So, let us presume that the most educated guess of scholars today is that the text called the Vedas are about 1 500 B.C. , and the text called Upanishads run from approximately 800 to considerably later-800 to at least 1 00, and some even later than that. But the major Upanishads such as the Brihadaranyaka, the Kana, the lsha and the Mondioku Upanishad, all are relatively early , so they will be anywhere from 800 to 600 , prior to the time of Buddha. But still, you see, we’re very vague about when all this started , because the Vedic tradition was brought to India from somewhere in central Asia.

The Arians who constitute the castes, the ruling people of India ( and have done so for hundreds and hundreds of years ) came from somewhere to the north, and have common ancestry linguistically with our European languages, but they had no sense of history.

If you write a story about a certain king who was involved with a certain sage, you alter the name of the king every time you re … tell the story-you simply make him the king of the present time, because then it becomes relevant… so nobody knows. The Jews, on the other hand, had a sense of history , and were very particular 8 7

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