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lack of Knowledge, they will at best create a stir in the media in order to attract more
tourists to the island and earn money. That's it. The Knowledge is valuable for the
spiritual seeker only then when it can be used to improve oneself and render spiritual
assistance to others.
Anastasia: This cannot be denied. Your words support like no other the material of
archaeological excavations of the Harappan civilization that I brought with me to this
meeting. We have found what we looked for -- both the signs, and the symbols, and
unique artefacts, but their interpretation by modern humans leaves much to be desired. I
made drawings of the photos of archaeological findings, including artefacts from
Mohenjo-daro (conventional name of the ruins of once the largest city of the Harappan
civilization found in the Indus Valley in present-day Pakistan). This is, for example, the
steatite seal which you had told us about! A man is sitting in the lotus position on a dais.
When I first saw this picture, I was of course struck by the fact that people five thousand
years ago did the same spiritual practices as we do now!
However, the very museum description of this seal, as well as of other findings, once
again made me smile sadly. Because in fact this description reflects the world view of
the people who provided it. But probably had I not known about the existence of this
spiritual practice personally, then, obviously, being in the shoes of these scholars, I
would have reasoned in the same way. Archaeologists describe this image in the
following way: a naked male deity with three faces is sitting on a throne in a yoga
position; there are bracelets on his arms; on his head, there is a sophisticated headdress,
the top of which looks like a "branch of a fig tree". Various assumptions are voiced,
including those that if the man depicted on the seal has such a "vegetation" over his
head, then probably this symbolizes the power of this "three-faced deity" over nature.
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