Hindu Medicine c5.s2.33

c5.s2.33

existence, that he embraces thisworldliness and otherworldliness. In consequence of this truth, the goal of life is not visualized as a moral attitude, although the fulfillment of the supreme task involves moral values. Rather is the goal extinction of self, complete abandonment to life. Like God, unaffected by the course of events, man must live within the world and without it.¹⁶ The myth, in opposition to intellect, leads into spheres that lie beyond personality and intellect; myth is the brother of dreams reflecting the depths of the human soul, it expresses the realm of the collective subconscious. India, to put it differently, even to this day has remained the prototype of archaic wisdom, of the non-intellectual vision of the world.¹⁷