Editorial
Placed on the planet of the earth and yet constantly striving to gobeyond the course of the planet. Man finds himself a strange composite oftime and transcendence. He cultivates the earth and transforms its face.Settled down on the banks of the rivers for easy cultivation, he graduallygave rise to c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1987
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 1987, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 93-95 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion
B Anthropology B Cult B Culture B Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Placed on the planet of the earth and yet constantly striving to gobeyond the course of the planet. Man finds himself a strange composite oftime and transcendence. He cultivates the earth and transforms its face.Settled down on the banks of the rivers for easy cultivation, he graduallygave rise to communities which gave him culture in return. In course oftime Thames and Tiber, Nile, Rhein, Indus and Tigris became centres ofworld civilizations. But we also see in history river Jordan wheke_peoplegathered to get purified from their sins, Ganges where millions still bathe,pray and make sacrificial offerings. Water was not a means of earthlycultivation alone. It was used also to cultivate one's mind, to beautifyone's inner self. Cult which gave mankind culture further led him toreligious cult. Man's primordial relation to earth was only the beginningof his capacity to relate with the outer world. Far beyond the measure ofhis outer world was the invisible world of eternal realities. This unseenworld of reality took him to myths, mysteries and gods and to those eventswhich took place in the beginning. "Let us do what gods did in thebeginning", he said. He did it. He enacted the story of the beginning.He remembered what happened in the beginning. His remembrance(Anamnesis) was by doing, by acting it out. Cult became mystery cult andreligious worship. Man became a cultic animal. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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