Course XXX - Teaching 5: Pre-Vedic Philosophy

The Pre-Vedic Philosophy was studied before that certain concepts metaphysical, moral, religious and social were condensed on the Vedas.
Of course, the Vedic and Pre-Vedic concepts strictly were of Cosmodicy; and ancient peoples never had other concepts.
They left so deep track in the mental concept of Western people that even today survives and makes western mentality be different from Western mentality, and therefore it is difficult, if not impossible, that these two sectors of the world may come close each other.
To study certain Philosophy you need not only to work out a concept, closely to study it and to try its assimilation, but also a suitable mental disposition is indispensable. Otherwise, the fundamental idea shall be inconsistent in the very brain of a man that studies it.
The fundamental concept of the Pre-Vedic Philosophy is essentially based on the existence of the Infinite.
The Non-Being, the mysterious emanating force of the Universe, becomes its support. And this Universe is not limited by infinite.
The only contact between the infinite and man is the soul of being, or mind.
Here is the whole difference between Eastern man and Western man, between student of Vedic Cosmodicy and student of Hellenic Cosmodicy.
Vedantists state that mind is the only real thing that can come close to define the Infinite. Then, just Theory would have value and utility; just that eventually definable by the mind.
The student has to project mentally his theories and to know their value and if they are true of false by the emotional intensity that they provide or by the clear concept that they express.
This is enough. It is offensive for the idea, harmful for freedom of thought and poisonous for the progress of the individual to investigate it, to reduce it to the material field and to experience it within the reach of man.
Philosophers would achieve great ecstatic understanding; but after their deep meditations and again in their usual state, they were obscure as to their statements, divergent as to their expressions and produced divergences among their disciples.
A being that descends on the purely philosophical ideal is enmeshed in the illusion and trapped in the dark of separateness.
The constant effort of the Philosopher consisted in coming close to the Infinite, so that even his mental tasks had relative value; they were true as they tried to approximate him to the Great Truth of the Infinite.
For its achievement, it was necessary to remove any delight and emotion from thought and to reach a clear illumination just by the intellect through a negative intellectual vision.
According to the known axiom of Cosmodicy and, over all, of the Philosophy of Non-Being, “one cannot reach the Supreme Union, or the Supreme Understanding, through mental knowledge but through a similar state, apparent or negative”.
So, they needed more fundamental concepts, to cover them with forms and figures, and to associate the latter with beliefs, costumes, laws and Gods of the people to lead the people to preserve them for the sake of students.
There holy, truly orthodox Holy Books came into being because they contain the Divine Teaching conveyed in hours of sublime understanding to Pre-Vedic Philosophers, to the possessors of the true postulates of the Cosmodicy.