There are, of course, many religions. But one of the striking things about those religions with their different placeholder ‘un-words’ for the divine – logos, lǐ, tao, ṛta and so on – is that none of these ‘un-words’ suggests a thing, but always a process: a dynamic source of energy, often imaged as fire or water – or, at another level, as love and life. Though ṛta is the ultimate foundation of everything, ‘this is not to be understood in a static sense … It is the expression of the primordial dynamism that is inherent in everything.’92 Like lǐ, like logos, and like the tao, it is creative
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