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Virtue, Success, Pleasure and Liberation - Four Aims of Life in the Tradition of Ancient India (Paperback, Original ed.)
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Virtue, Success, Pleasure and Liberation - Four Aims of Life in the Tradition of Ancient India (Paperback, Original ed.)
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What is the Nature of the social order that unquestionably produced
one of the greatest and longest lasting civilizations known to
humankind? Alain Danielou, distinguished Orientalist, musicologist,
and linguist, reveals the foundations of India's culture and the
four aims of human life as they are viewed in the traditional Hindu
society: virtue on a moral plane; success on the material and
social planes; pleasure on a sensual plane; and liberation on a
spiritual plane. Coexistent with these aims are the four stages of
life: quest for knowledge, family life, retreat into the forest,
and renunciation.
A four-fold division can be found in all traditional societies
throughout the world, symbolically representing the progression of
creative consciousness into physical reality. In India, this
division is reflected in the caste system, a social order that
differs profoundly from those accepted in the contemporary Western
world. Exploring he fundamental concepts of the caste system, the
author addresses issues of race, individual rights, sexual mores,
martial practices, and spiritual attainments. In this light, he
exposes the inherent flaws and hypocrisies of our modern
egalitarian governments and shows how the shadow side of the
ancient caste system persists, disguised and unacknowledged,
beneath contemporary economic regimes. Danielou explains how Hindu
society has served as a model for the realization of human
potential on many levels, addressing sociological and human
problems that are both timeless and universal.
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