I am a Hindu. I am also a poet. If any Hindu has a problem with what I have written, they are welcome to question my 'Mimamsa' or interpretation of Hindu Scripture. Why does no Hindu do so? The answer is that I am not claiming to speak for any particular 'sampraday'. Moreover, my observations have 'apoorvata' of a poetic- pathos is mathos- type.
Today, a non-Hindu told me that my 'vikalpa' ( I never claimed to be a fucking Acharya!) are not founded in the only thing they could, by oikeosis, be founded in- viz my ancestry.
Joseph Vetukatti is a Medical Doctor & a Professor & Research leader re. 'Congenital Cardiology'.
His name suggests that he comes from a South Indian Christian family which built houses or were notable for some reason connected with house construction.
I don't know if he is constructing a sound edifice for research into Cardiology. I do know that his paper- titled
Nāma–Vikāra (Name Expression): A study into the Metaphysical Architecture of Sanskrit Epics
Subtitle: A Hermeneutical Reconstruction within Advaita Vedānta
In the philosophy of language, a proper name is a name which ordinarily is taken to uniquely identify its referent in the world.
is ignorant, stupid nonsense. He had invited me to comment on it on the Academia website. I wasn't too harsh with him. Yet he responded angrily saying that though I am descended from udgatrs, my 'Mimasa' has no foundation in the sacred text preserved by my ancestors- not his.
I responded by suggesting he was a 'vidushak'- a joker- and he has either blocked me or taken some other such similar step.
I will now briefly show that every sentence he has written displays intense stupidity & an impartial ignorance of both Hindu & Western hermeneutics.
Nama-Vikara means alteration of the Name- e.g. Mummy affectionately calls me Bikki not Vivek. Sama Veda alters pronunciation of Rg Vedic words for the sake of euphony. This gives rise to the notion in Indic musicology that there are shuddh (pure) & vikrit (altered) swaras.
Joe, the joker, says 'Nama-Vikara' means 'Name Expression'. Why? A Name is a phonetic string which is its own expression according to 'Shiksha'. But for the rhapsodist, the shiksha vocalisation is changed to create a musical effect.
Lord Krishna says, in the Gita, 'among Vedas I am the Sama. Thus, among Upanishads, Krishna will be associated with Chandogya & Devakiputra.
Joe, joker of a 'house builder', that he is, thinks Vedanta has 'architecture'. For Vedic yagnya, there is indeed 'architecture' of the ritual altar. This is karma-kanda & the subject of Purva-Mimamsa. But Vedanta is 'end of the Vedas'- i.e. what happens after the altar is disassembled and every last trace, (or 'crumb of the sacrifice) is properly effaced or disposed off. Joseph may have noticed that this same thing happens after the Christian Mass. Yet, this cretin talks of 'Metaphysical architecture' as inhering in Vedantic texts- that too of a Vaishnavite type!
What is the major malfunction of this cretin? His heart may be in the right place. But his brain is full of shit. What put that shit there? The answer is that he thinks Western Indology wasn't a wank.
To be fair, Hermann Grassman (who translated the Rg Veda) did make interesting discoveries because he treated the text as a data set. Andre Weil learnt Sanskrit as a kid & taught at Aligarh alongside Vijayraghavan. One may say 'Weil made Bourbaki open to 'dhvani' echoes' & Grothendieck's Yoga arises from it'. But this is merely a matter of speaking. Indian Samkhya was combinatorics based 'discrete math'. That's why it had notions like 'yukti' (Djikstra concurrency) & Cantorian notions re. Cardinality. Moreover, it was fundamentally statistical & game theoretic purely because that was the only manner in which it could 'pay its way' & get incorporated into the ars dictaminis paideia of the clerical (Mandarin=Mantrin) class into which Niyogi Brahmins migrated. I am talking about my own ancestral history here. I know it by 'sampratti'. Joe the joker, building his clownish house of cards, is wholly ignorant of it.
Also he is as stupid as shit. He did useful enough donkey work in one field, but- donkey that he is- is now braying to enter the 'kshetra' of an alien religion so as to make it greener in his own eyes by the deposit of his own donkey dung. I, very respectfully, requested him to turn his attentions to the Holy Quran.
PART 1 Vedantic Understanding
Which is what Smartas like me have in an 'emic' & authentic manner.
Abstarct (sic)
This thesis proposes a new hermeneutical framework
i.e. one with 'apoorvata'. If this shitty donkey has such a 'framework' he would be able to say something about my ancestral texts which would strike me as being novel & revealing a new, previously un-noticed, beauty=truth such that my 'shradda' or pious devotion was reinforced.
Donkey Joe can do no such thing.
for reading the Sanskrit epics by grounding epic nomenclature in the ontological doctrine of nāma–vikāra articulated in the Chandogya Upanishad
Udgatrs were what Kosambi called 'a miserabilist class'- i.e. poor as shit. Why? The musical way of chanting goes against the common 'shiksha'. Even in Sri Lal Shukla's Rag Darbari, the 'nasal' accent of the udgatr is mocked. Puritans don't like Music. Vak, mother of the Vedas, herself went into vagabondage with the Gandharvas. It is a scandal to Dogmatics- or donkeys like Joe the builder of clown houses- but opens the 'sahaja' or easy path for 'women, fisherfolk, drunkards, slaves' or even worthless Socioproctologists like me.
Sama Veda and Vajd-e-Sama are one & the same. The Sufi qawwali, the Bengali Baul song- but also every composition by a Tyagaraja or Swati Tirunal- are equally suspect to the eye of orthopraxy.
This is the dramatic aspect of Chandogya- for those descended by sampratti- from the famished udgatrs for whom it was revealed, which unites Pathos & Mathos & thus removes any 'stumbling block' for Faith.
and the ‘vacavibhuthir’ claim of Bhagavata Purana.
Which cashes out as onomatodoxy. This is perfectly orthodox. Indeed it is the most ancient 'Purva Mimamsa'. The name has a power over and above what we think it signifies. Nothing wrong with that at all. Thanks to Purva Mimamsa, my ancestors had an assurance of error-free transmission.
There is a story that Valmiki was a murderous thug & robber. He started of by chanting 'Mara Mara' (kill, kill) but ended up hearing himself say 'Rama! Rama!' He was saved & saved countless millions by his great 'kavya' epic poem. This is known as true meaning, by highest Acarya & lowest Pariah, of a term Joe the donkey-clown-house-constructor, lovingly deposits his own stinking dung on.
Joe, who is not a Smarta udgatr, tells me I am not myself 'founded' in my own religion & oikeiosis. He hints that I am forcing a modern, Mathematical, model on ancient, utterly illogical and foolish, Hindoooo texts.
Yet, mathematicians have always recognised that intuitions don't change where formalisations change. Indeed, as we have seen over the last thirty years, it is the intuitions which matter. An AI can do 'univalent foundations' formalisations which are canonical for almost any specific purpose.
Joe is so fucking stupid, he probably thinks there was no Game Theory before its formalisation by Von Neumann. Nor could there have been non-dissipative systems before Noether. But double-entry Accountancy is non dissipative. Ensuring 'duality' is good enough to ensure error correction. Joe is a fucking Medical Researcher. Does he really not know this? Fuck is wrong with him?
Suppose I said- on the basis of my having been born in Germany- 'there were no Christians in South India before 1887' - when some stupid racist German cunt shat on the Holy Bible? What would happen? My own mother would slap the black off me. Even Comrade Vijayan would give me a wide berth.
I suppose Donkey Joe isn't really interested in the opinion of darkies like me. He wants to suck up to stupid White dudes with PhDs in worthless shite.
But, if that is intention, he can't write utter nonsense like this-
Beginning from the Upanishadic assertion that “Name is a mere expression of ideas; the underlying substance alone is real,”
There is no such donkey-dung assertion anywhere save in Joe's ignorant mind. Names designate. They don't 'express'. Moreover, ideas are not connected with 'substance' save by a 'Structural Causal Model'.
No hypokeimenon is real. It is merely the lowest Kolomogorov complexity (i.e. uncompressible) SCM undergirding.
Where did Donkey-Joe go to Skool? I knew stuff like this when I was doing my fucking A levels! By the time I got to the LSE, aged 16, I understood why 'multiple realisability' (e.g convergent evolution) & lack of categoricity (or 'naturality') must be the rule- not the exception.
the study advances the thesis that Sanskrit proper names
A person can have a whole bunch of such proper names in various contexs. Consider the epithet 'fat bastard'- it uniquely identifies me, not Joe, if we happen to be having a drink together at the local pub.
in the epics function as compressed ontology
There can be 'pocket universes'. There can't be a 'compressed ontology'. Why? Ontology is information theoretic. The canonical ontology minimises Kolmogorov complexity.
Joe, donkey that he is, didn't get why my mention of Ramsey theory (prefigured in Uma-fucking-svati!) was relevant.
rather than as arbitrary identifiers. If nāma (Name) is understood as the conceptual crystallization of a perceived expression,
Nobody has ever done so. Fuck is wrong with this shithead? My name for him is 'Joe-the-donkey-dung-fabricator-of-clown houses'. One may say it is my conceptual crystallisation of my 'perceived' impression of the ultracrepidarian shite he has written. But it isn't really. I don't perceive Joe as a shithead. I know he is a fucking ultracrepidarian donkey trying to shit on Hinduism.
then epic nomenclature constitutes ontological condensation:
Not for Smartas. The Hindu doctrine of Incarnation has nothing to do with prosopoi or hypostasis. Maybe, this donkey of a Jew, is trying to save Trinitarianism by appealing to Ramanuja's bimba-pratibimbat-darpan. I'm kidding. This donkey just wants to shit on a 'kshetra' which his own Church tells him to avoid like the Devil.
each name encodes a metaphysical, psychological, and ethical principle embedded within the narrative form.
Nothing wrong with proceeding on that assumption. But that's not an excuse for shitting on a 'kshetra'- a field- which your own Church says you should avoid.
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