While the Gods play.

After the destruction of the Indus cities by the Aryans, writing officially disappeared from India for over a millennium. The scientific, philosophical and religious texts of the ancient civilization were preserved by secret monastic organizations. Reconstituted and translated into Sanskrit during the revival of ancient Shaivism at the beginning of the Christian era, they gave rise to a prodigious renaissance that lasted until the Islamic invasions of the thirteenth century. These texts reveal insights into the nature of the universe, the origins of matter and life, astrophysics, biology, evolution, and the relationship between thought and language that meet or exceed the most daring conceptions of modern science. Alain Daniélou was able to gather the texts of this Shaivite worldview – its genesis, its history and the destiny of mankind – from representatives of ancient Shivaism, and explains them in While the Gods play…, an impressive summation of traditional Hindu knowledge.

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