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“Karma is that "one eternal Law in nature," as H. P. Blavatsky defined it, that law which she said "always tends to adjust contraries and to produce final harmony," and dharma, from which conceptually karma cannot be separated, and which has been translated in so many ways, but which as righteousness, as duty, as that which upholds, sustains, and
... See moreIn RV 5.85, Varuna released the rain by overturning a pot: “Varuna has poured out the cask, turning its mouth downward. With it the king of the whole universe waters the soil.” In Sacrificial Deposit 1 at Sintashta an overturned pot was placed between two rows of sacrificed animals—in a ritual possibly associated with the construction of the
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Confronted with these realities, a philosopher or anthropologist might be tempted to think that the Aztecs lacked a domain for thinking about what we call "ontology" or "metaphysics." That is untrue. They did think deeply about the fundamental character of reality. They merely did so without the use of terms such as "being" or "is." Instead, they
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