{"id":33059,"date":"2020-12-24T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/?p=33059"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:25:25","slug":"hindouism-by-danielou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/hindouism-by-danielou.html","title":{"rendered":"Hindouism By Danielou"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This time, the Indianist Alain Dani\u00e9lou<\/a> revisits the religious myths of the West to show the heritage common to archaic Indian culture and to ours. His feeling of being the only one to see the truth beyond appearances has always been mine, which is why I have a particular affection for this sage in whom I had found a model.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing original<\/h4>\n

In this world which prided itself on having invented everything, I saw nothing original, but only misunderstood snippets of older knowledge, and I was surprised by the inconsiderate use, prohibited in all societies. traditional, knowledge of ways of life, intellectual and moral tyrannies, which can only lead to the destruction of man. (source)<\/a>Alain Dani\u00e9lou, Mythes et Dieux de l’Inde, Le polyth\u00e9isme hindou, avant-propos<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing original? Misunderstood snippets of older knowledge? Without hesitation I could sign these words which go straight to my heart. What astonishing? Dani\u00e9lou like myself are the children of our studies, which mainly focused on myths, particularly religious ones.<\/p>\n

It is true that Dani\u00e9lou never recovered from the shock caused to him by the first contact with the land of contrasts that was India and the encounter with primitive Shaivism. He therefore tends to reduce everything to Hinduism. I too experienced the same shock<\/a>, but I did not succumb to it. I have kept my distance from Hinduism, whose sacred corpus certainly contains a prodigious mass of useful information, but which cannot claim exclusivity as a primordial source. All archaic cultures seem to have undergone the same influence, powerful and lasting. It is in my opinion that of the former gods<\/a>. I will come back to that.<\/p>\n

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The origin of myths<\/h4>\n

The origin and the reason for being of the myths, the rites, the beliefs appeared obvious to me but no one seemed to have the least notion of their meaning. (source)<\/a>Alain Dani\u00e9lou, Mythes et Dieux de l’Inde, Le polyth\u00e9isme hindou, avant-propos<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I totally agree, except on the origin of the myths. Dani\u00e9lou ignored what seems obvious to me, but the times are not the same, and our knowledge has greatly increased over the past fifty years. But it would have been better inspired to reread the classics of the Western tradition – Saint Yves d’Alveydre, Papus, Fabre d’Olivet<\/a>, Helena Blavatski, Rudolf Steiner<\/a>, Ren\u00e9 Gu\u00e9non<\/a> and many others. They could have given him some info that he lacks.<\/p>\n

Why must the Savior, incarnation of Vishnu for a given region and time, be born in a cave, why must an ox, a sacred animal, and a donkey, an unclean animal, be near him, why a virgin mother, why three kings and why shepherds, why a star. In this sacred and eternal mystery, which any Brahmin child can explain, Christians see nothing but folklore. A large part of the stories that make up the life of Jesus do moreover only repeat those of the child Krishna or of Shiva-Dionysos.<\/em><\/p>\n

As Leopold von Schroeder noted, (source)<\/a>Pythagoras und die Inder, by Schroeder<\/span> almost all the philosophical or mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from the Sankhya. We also find the fundamental concepts of Sankhya in Anaximander, Heraclitus<\/a>, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus and Epicurus.<\/em> (source)<\/a>Alain Dani\u00e9lou, Mythes et Dieux de l’Inde, Le polyth\u00e9isme hindou, avant-propos<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Learning does not teach intelligence. Otherwise, it would have instructed Hesiod and Pythagoras.<\/p>