[Y-Indology] Historical truths about Indology

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INDOLOGY, vaidix@h... wrote:

 

> Ofcourse now it is the ritual which was termed as crude and

> primitive. The fact of the life is, whatever is advanced rests on

> what is primitive and never ever outgrows it. The first born thoughts

> are necessarily fragments of the complete expressions that appear

> much later (after many micro seconds). We can only deal with the

> latter comfortably and deny the former "Oh why bother".

 

In one of his lectures, Dadaji Pandurang Shastri Athavale

commented on the Western attitude that ancient Indians did

not have philosophy. He said that Yajnavalkya (of the Upanishads)

was the first philosopher. To the charge that Y. was a ritualist,

Dadaji's answer was that the Indian philosophers after climbing up,

do not kick down the ladder.

 

-Arun Gupta