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Vedas
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The Rig Veda says that desire was the first movement that arose in the One after it had come into being through the power of abstraction. ‘Desire arose first in It, which was the primal germ of mind; (and which) sages, searching with their intellect have discovered in their heart to be the bond which connects entity with non-entity.’48 The very strength of the urge made it useful to use as a metaphor to convey or explicate a metaphysical point. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says: ‘Just as a man,
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― The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward
― The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward
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Vedas do not accept untouchability. But if Vedas (were to) accept untouchability then I would reject the Vedas.
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