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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Calasso, Roberto.     Subjects     Vedas -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Calasso, Roberto.       by title:      Ardor [electronic re...         MARC Display

Ardor [electronic resource] / Roberto Calasso. by Calasso, Roberto. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. Subjects Vedas -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=01EB5C82-138B-47D1-83DB-7CD9127D36F0 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/ardor-01eb5c?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{01EB5C82-138B-47D1-83DB-7CD9127D36F0}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781429955805 (electronic bk.) 1429955805 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Edition:  Unabridged. Requests:  0 Summary:  In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom The Paris Review has called "a literary institution," explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: they left behind almost no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the hallucinogenic plant the soma, which appears at the center of some of their rituals, has not been identified with any certainty. Only a "Parthenon of words" remains: verses and formulations suggesting a daring understanding of life. "If the Vedic people had been asked why they did not build cities," writes Calasso, "they could have replied: we did not seek power, but rapture." This is the ardor of the Vedic world, a burning intensity that is always present, both in the mind and in the cosmos. With his signature erudition and profound sense of the past, Calasso explores the enigmatic web of ritual and myth that defines the Vedas. Often at odds with modern thought, these texts illuminate the nature of consciousness more than anybody else has managed up to now. Following the "hundred paths" of the Śatapatha Brahmaņa, an impressive exegesis of Vedic ritual, Ardor indicates that it may be possible to reach what is closest to us by passing through that which is most remote, as "the whole of Vedic India was an attempt to think further."   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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