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mysticism

Mysticism as experience and interpretation

South Asian traditions

A soma sacrifice in Pune (Poona), India.
[Credit: C.M. Natu]Some mysticism can indeed be defined successfully in terms of the experience or perception of unity with the divine. In Hinduism, for example, the hymns of the Rigveda were composed in Sanskrit by members of the Indo-European population that entered the northern plains of India from Central Asia beginning about 1500 bce. In the Vedic religion the chief gods were Indra, the king of the gods; Agni, the fire god; and Soma, the god associated with the hallucinogenic soma plant. (The botanical identity of soma has been lost, but it was ... (100 of 9730 words)

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