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Author: Roberto Calasso,Richard Dixon
Number of Pages: 420 pages
Published Date: 18 Nov 2014
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780374182311
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In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom "The Paris Review "has called "a literary institution," explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind almost no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the "soma," the likely hallucinogenic plant that appears at the center of some of their rituals, has not been identified with any certainty. Only a "Parthenon of words" remains: verses and formulations suggesting a daring understanding of life. "If the Vedic people had been asked why they did not build cities," writes Calasso, "they could have replied: we did not seek power, but "rapture."" This is the ardor of the Vedic world, a burning intensity that is always present, both in the mind and in the cosmos. With his signature erudition and profound sense of the past, Calasso explores the enigmatic web of ritual and myth that defines the Vedas. Often at odds with modern thought, these texts illuminate the nature of consciousness more vividly than anything else has managed to till now. Following the "hundred paths" of the "Satapatha Brahma""n""a," an impressive exegesis of Vedic ritual, "Ardor "indicates that it may be possible to reach what is closest by passing through that which is most remote, as "the whole of Vedic India was an attempt to "think further.""