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One Without a Second: How a Rigvedic Riddle Grew Into Advaita Vedanta
Three thousand years before Shankara, a Rigvedic poet ended a hymn on creation by admitting the one god who might know how it began probably does not. That admission, and a single half-line about truth being one, became the root system of India's most audacious philosophy.
Why Read the Rig Veda Today? Six Reasons from Literature, Philosophy and Science
If you are not Hindu and not a Sanskritist, why bother with a 3,000-year-old anthology of ritual hymns? Six concrete reasons — literary, historical, linguistic, philosophical, scientific and cultural — each defensible without reference to religion.