Re: The (un)importance of Historicity in Hinduism
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
itihāsa is iti+ha+āsa = 'so indeed it was'; some say 'thus it was' - talk , legend , tradition , history , traditional accounts of former events; thus (iti) , history , his - story of what occurred.
From an esoteric POV the wise say now only exists. Yet we ~feel~ this time pass by.
Time , they say is the collection of moments. What is a moment ? It is the time it takes light to pass the width of an atom (truṭi¹ .
Yet in sanātana dharma we deal from the smallest to the largest. Somewhere in the middle history occurs. Yet what is so curious about
this is the ancient paṇḍita had such precision of thought and measure, yet they were not much interested in date-stamping their work.
Their brilliance is uncanny; as I see it must have been a mindful decision not bother with dates when dealing with the subject of eons.
praṇām
words
truṭi - a very minute space of time, an atom ; an atom = 7 reṇu ;reṇu = a grain or atom of dust = 8 trasareṇu the mote or atom of dust
moving in a sun-beam considered as an ideal weight either of the lowest denomination or equal to 3 invisible atoms . truṭi is sometimes
used for tuṭi meaning small cardamoms.
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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