RLG100Y1 Lecture : hindu
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a whole different way of looking at the world, our relationship to the world and others. Anladi: literally means without beginning". it refers to the way the universe works. It moves constantly, internally, the universe is always flowing but always changes, so we see transformation both dramatically and slightly. Kala: the movement of time. (western: time begins when the universe begins. The south asian tradition understands time in a different way. as the universe going, time moves in a wave-like pattern. Sometimes the physical universe is degenerating, sometimes evolving, according to this pattern. The moral, spiritual movement is sometimes up and other times down. The physical and moral movement emerge, evolves, matures and goes down, setting the next development and is eventually destroyed. The universe is created" in one moment and then evolves in a certain pattern. Once it reaches its peak, it degenerate again. Before the final destroy, it starts the next cycle.
