However, Artha is subservient to Dharma in the 4 Purushārthas. The action of Rajas in the 3-Guna system has to be moderated by Sattva Guna. Sattva refers to binding action with reality (Sat). It destroys the simulacra which have no basis in reality.
Seriously, do you want to live in any version of India that existed a thousand years ago? You probably don’t get to pick and choose which parts of modernity you can carry back into your pastoral feudalist utopia.
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I understand this nostalgia is your identity, like mine is the bittersweet world of German eternalist romanticism, but it is just as wrong. The universe does not work this way. You only feel it should, because the identity fixes it to that target value.
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You are not a scholar of the history of science, Joscha. If you were, you would see how often the Greeks & Romans are referred to in the western academia for every single thing. Scientific culture, just like any culture, develops with a history. It is important to realize this.
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