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# Ardor Hardcover – November 18, 2014

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## Customer Reviews

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    Idiosyncratic
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 29, 2022*

If you're looking for a book about the Vedas, this isn't the place to start. I'd suggest any of the books by Wendy Doniger, which are both readable and based on sound scholarship. What we have in this book are the author's self-described "meditations." There's a lot of emphasis on soma, even though that's actually a relatively minor element of Vedic ritual. And strong emphasis on the uniqueness of Vedic knowledge, while ignoring the Iranian parallels (haoma=soma, ahura=asura, etc., etc.). And the author jumbles together quotations from the samhita texts with quotes from works that are centuries later, especially the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, which reflect a significantly different outlook. And the book concludes with thoughts on modern philosophy, in which empirical science is denigrated by comparison with ritual and sacrifice. I suspect that the book is best appreciated under the influence of hashish.

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    A monument to those that built theirs in the mind
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2014*

A great lover of texts has given us a gift. If you play along with this genius, you might detect surprisingly recognizable harmonics. Invisible and unconventional but reflections, without distortion, without a doubt. A deeper appreciation of what he found when he wrote "Ka".If ever a book made me wish I was a better reader, this would be the one. One is humbled by his range, the ability to connect, the flashes of media - in papyrus here, in mantra there, a university researcher's key-board now, soot covered paper in some other corner.Borges RE: Kafka “His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.” What Borges noted about Kafka is patently the case with Calasso.“the other one, the one called Borges” - J.L.BorgesCalasso shows in this book that others, many years before Borges, had the same realization - and then went beyond. Connecting precise action with unimaginable intent to access the invisible within and everywhere.Rereading sections and chapters continue to reward with new glimpses and flashes of brilliance. I would recommend patience and many departures and returns to visit different parts of this tome and realize the pleasures in the book.

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    Vedic ritual and thought made accessible
  

*by P***1 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2019*

Modern Hinduism gives reverence and  lip service to the Vedas while primarily being derived from the Puranas and the Tantras. In consequence Vedic (meaning the  Samhita hymns, and the Brahmana commentaries)  are used ritually but their meaning is not really understood even by the purohits who make a good living from them.Mr. Calasso dives into the very difficult Satapatha Brahmana to understand and explain the mindset of the Vedic seers who designed the yagna rituals. It is the only work of its kind I have actually seen.Along the way he discusses and explains tapas, translated as "Ardor", libations, animal sacrifice, atman, the god Prajapati , the sage Yajnavalka and other  familiar Vedic matters. All is done beautifully and with his characteristic depth.A wonderful work that  is must reading for those who wish to understand the Vedic mindset.

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