El pecado, la vergüenza y la culpa en el pensamiento védico (Estudios sobre el mal, la culpa y el pecado en el R?gveda y en el pensamiento brahmánico, I)

  1. Rubio Orecilla, Francisco Javier
Journal:
Ilu. Revista de ciencias de las religiones

ISSN: 1135-4712,  1988-3269

Year of publication: 2012

Issue: 17

Pages: 149-171

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5209/REV_ILUR.2012.V17.39677 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The concepts of evil, guilt and sin in the Vedic and Brahmanic ideology are here studied, starting from textual analysis, especially of the .gveda. For the Vedic mind were sinful all infractions of .tá, specifically drúh: falsehood, betrayal and active breaking of a promise. The Vedic ideology shows so features of the «shame cultures», where an evil deed don�t produce guilt feelings, remorse or contrition, but in first line, fear of losing the public respect. When the gods are beseeched to free men from the fastenings that are the expected outcome of an evil deed, there is any distinction made in the texts between deliberate misdeeds, a casual or unconscious mistake, nor between own or others� sins, for the consequences of alien misdeeds, in form of pollution, can too contaminate others. The analysis of avadyá «shame» is done on texts about Indra�s birth (RV 4.18) and Namuci�s death (MS 4.3.4).

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