PHIL 3910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rigveda
18 Oct 2018
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One very obvious contradiction: book 3 #19 the cosmic eggs. The sun is brahman, this is the teaching, in the beginning the world was just being. The chandogya is a large work composed by different authors, one author saying 1 and another gives another. Why would anyone want to say-assume more interesting situation, both are right and both are wrong. Rig veda: on pg. 23 ch. 10 vs 129 non being existed not, nor being. Ch. 13 vs 12 (supreme brahman is neither existent nor nonexistent) Nonexistent then existence, existence 1st, neither existence nor non-existence. It didn"t exist, it"s the potential to exist = prime matter. Atoms are a form, keep striping the forms you get to prime matter. The difference temporal something comes first in time, logical comes first conceptuality. Temporal something that had to exist at the very beginning. If you start at nothing, you get nothing, prime matter = itself nothing but has the potential to be.
