The trending postmodern, popular, but self-contradictory philosophy that all truth is relative and that the very fabric of reality as we know it should be questioned (subjectivism, pluralism, relativism, etc.) was practically born in India by the Hindu doctrine of Maya (Sanskrit, literally, that which is not, by implication, illusion). Historical evidence even suggests that Greek Gnosticism and related reality-denying doctrines may have had their provenance or origin in India (corroborated by early church theologian Clement of Alexandria in his Stromata). When Alexander the Great and his armies made it as far as as the banks of the Indus River in then India (now Pakistan) he encountered what he called the *gymnosophists* or *naked philosophers* (Naga sadhus; an ancient but extant Hindu ascetic monastic order that dispensed with regular food and clothing to do penance, seek purity of thought, and somehow regain lost innocence. Other renunciates such as Jain monks to this day where no clothes). So no wonder an elastic version of veritas is so deeply embedded in this culture...
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:58:47 +0000
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