Anthony Cerulli, "The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India" (U California Press, 2022)
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The Importance of a Psychic Teacher's Work in Hindoo Studies
This work so fascinates me because it's showing these very two different ways of regarding texts, ways of walking through the world. One mode is that you master the minutia of the text, but then you can dispense with entire verses when a principle or instinct or a intuition overrides that. This tension is so, so important to me. This is the tention of ami, many ways, at the heart of religious studies. Its attention of the heart of hindoo studies, its am this is partially wy. I had the good fortune of having a traditional indian grfer fe the subject that i studyd traditionally,. It's quite profoundto witness an action which
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