The world is real, not illusory. It exists and endures because of the ignorance of the soul, of the spirit. Maya, cosmic illusion, endured by man as long as he is blinded by ignorance, makes possible the maintenance of the material world. — Kamil Zvelebil Share this quote Post on X Facebook Download image Copy quote Copy link Share… Another quote →
As Wheeler pointed out long ago, Harappan civilization is the most spatially extensive of all the early civilizations we know.
However, until before the bhakti trend set in, before the so-called 'dark ages', in the Tamil classical age, in the age of Murugan, the Tamil man seems to have had a clear, optimistic, rather simple, very secular view of life, in a heroic age of meat-eating and wine-drinking pre-feudal society, with relatively simple but meaningful religious conceptions.