Being and Non-being
“Existence and Truth”
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
asat · being · being and not-being · existence of the non-existent · non-being · sat · the Existent · the Non-existent · truth and being
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1 expressionNon-being and Being“Asat and Sat”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
Those gods named the Bṛhant ones were born from non-being;
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Non-being and Being (Asat and Sat), a philosophical polarity debated and located within the Pillar in the riddle hymn.
Those gods named the Bṛhant ones were born from non-being;
People know the branch of non-being as if it were the highest support;
Where the worlds and the treasuries are, where people know the sacred power to be, where non-being and being are within — tell us that Pillar, which one precisely is it?
Parmenides
The paradoxical result that the non-existent one, precisely in order to be truly said not to exist, must in some sense partake of being and of not-being, tying truthful speech to existence.
How is that?
And non-existence also, if it does not exist.
And it must also, in a way, partake of existence.
Rigveda
The paired cosmological categories located in the highest firmament, in the birth of Dakṣa and the lap of Aditi.
Both the Non-existent and the Existent are in the highest firmament, in the birth of Dakṣa, in the lap of Aditi.