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Ep 161: The History of Desire in India

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Only Thing We Can Know Is Desire

Vedic literature in an of itself is actually quite invested in desire and sexuality, sometimes very disturbingly. The inwardly astet go out for the modern servil and sage. That's right. Rat the secity we camer cot. It makes perfect sense to me. I don't know what kind of battles must have taken place but some scholars say that one of the battles was the advent of buddhism and jenism. They found people moving away from vedic hinduism,. which was not called bedic religions, towards ascetic religion. We're going to do this? What are we going to do about it? And then they decided to inject a

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