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Sep 17, 2026
James D. RyanGUEST
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Raj BalkaranHOST
No, I, I, I would just say that certainly whether or not we are sort of, uh, Indologists or Indophiles or what have you, I think that just about anyone who reads, uh, even engages in texts, the Upanishads in English translation, it's certainly clear to just about any, any audience that they are rich, poignant, powerful works that are encoding or pointing in, in, in innovative and profound ways at, at what it means to be or experience reality.
Raj BalkaranHOST
And so, um, so, uh, without putting words in your mouth, what, what I'm sort of hearing, well, having looked at the book, but I'm just sort of for the sake of our, our listenership, what I'm hearing in this moment from you is that, um, there-- Well, first of all, it, it's unsurprising then that so many differing schools draw inspiration from this very same bedrock, because the bedrock is so rich and so amenable to exegesis.
Raj BalkaranHOST
Um, so what I'm hearing you say is that Vedanta actually, in many ways, is a, a domestication or a taming or a packaging-
James D. RyanGUEST
Anyway, Jump in with your question, I can go on to...
Raj BalkaranHOST
I would just say that certainly whether or not we are sort of Indologists or Indophiles or what have you, I think that just about anyone who reads, even engages in texts, the Upanishads in English translation, it's certainly clear to just about any audience that they are rich poignant powerful works that are encoding or pointing in in innovative and profound ways that what it means to be or experience reality and so so Now that I'm putting words in your mouth, what I'm sort of hearing, having looked at the book for the sake of our listenership, what I'm hearing in this moment from you is that, first of all, it's unsurprising then that so many differing schools draw inspiration from this very same bedrock because the bedrock is so rich and so amenable to exegesis.
Raj BalkaranHOST
So what I'm hearing you say is that Vedanta actually, in many ways, is a domestication, or a taming, or a packaging.
James D. RyanGUEST
Thank you for that.
Prashant IyengarGUEST
Yajnavalkya penned down a text.
Prashant IyengarGUEST
Now that means that Yajnavalkya's text is older than Patanjali's text according to Indologists.
Prashant IyengarGUEST
There is Yoga in Upanishads, Kathopanishad.
Prashant IyengarGUEST
There is definition of Yoga.
Prashant IyengarGUEST
It is objectionable.
Prashant IyengarGUEST
It can be not accepted by the classical-minded people.
Prashant IyengarGUEST
Because these are Western Indologists who accorded various times for different happenings in India.
Prashant IyengarGUEST
Vedas, times of Vedas, times of Brahman and Mahabharata and Shat Darshanal, etc.
Jay M. HamadeGUEST
No, I think, I think that that's exactly it.
Jay M. HamadeGUEST
There, there's a great Indologist or scholar of, of India named David Gordon White, who has written some extremely-
Douglas BatchelorHOST
Mm-hmm
Jay M. HamadeGUEST
... uh, are you familiar with him?