LANGUAGE IN INDIA

THE SACRED INVENTED
Ranjit Singh Rangila

THE IDEA OF BEING SACRED OR SACREDNESS

Like any thing else that concerns people in the contemporary societies, the idea of sacred, its experience, expression and practice seems to have been invented by human beings during their long journey unto civilisation making. The practice of inventing also goes deeper into the archaeological layers of the known civilisations.

A PROBLEM OF CIVILIZATION-MAKING

This realisation presents the issue of the invention of the idea of sacred as a problem related to the much larger an issue of civilisation making. By the same token the problem turns out to be as deep as a civilisation could be.

An equally important shade of the problem surfaces if both ‘the sacred’ and ‘invented’ are considered purely on an ideational plane. With such a consideration the focus of an inquiry is likely to tilt towards ontogenesis of the two ideas in particular, and towards the becoming of an idea in general.

INVENTION OF SACRED

The focus of such an inquiry may possibly allow two strategic perspectives. When conducted with a strategy of micro coverage, its central concentration could be on an immediate problem of creation and becoming of an idea; and when seen from a macro perspective, it is creation of wisdom at the primary focus.

To invent an idea is to create a cosmology. It may sound strange yet that is the case. Through the involvement of ones consciousness one visualises a cosmos, places a Now in it, churns out the experience coming from both the in here and the out there channels; and just articulates ones intuitions that are gained in the n-logic imagination.

A MINIMAL COSMOLOGY

An idea in its microform is a minimal cosmology.

• Cosmology in its above mention stands for a statement that describes some universe, the cosmos in it – notwithstanding the extant of the described.
• Cosmology in the above sense is much different a notion as compared to the notion in physics where it is a,“ the study of the origin, history and shape of the universe” (Boslough 1985/89: 36).
• The ‘cosmos’ is indicated with an arrow in the architecture. The centre in the cosmos stands for a ‘Now’. The multi-directional arrows in it are indicative of the n-dimensional logics that operate in the cosmos with active reference to the ‘Now’.
• There is the point of ‘the look’ at which the ‘out there’ and the ‘in here’ movements of a consciousness engaged in the act of looking, the discovery through the universe take off and meet.
• On ‘the look’ axis there is a point (intersection of the ‘in’ and the ‘out’ arrows) at which the consciousness comes in dialogical contact with the cosmos.
• This leads to a contact and to a multi-dimensional (logical) churning that consciousness conducts over the Now. The result of such processing is an intuition that can be articulated.
• An act of articulation (meant not necessarily in phonetic terms) happens as a result of a multi-ended connectivity that completes the becoming of an IDEA.
• The most crucial connectivity for IDEA in this scheme is with the Now and the cosmos. It is here where the articulated statement (expressed in any terms) rises up to the status of cosmology.

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