Mysticism

[Robert Zydenbos]

In Kannada, the commonly used word in ādhyātmikate (which of course is Sanskrit ādhyātmikatā), but the same word also seems to be used as a supposed equivalent for 'spirituality'. As Dominik already said, it seems we have another example of incommensurability here.

RZ

On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> You might look at Apte's Eng-Skt dict for some ideas.
> 	• http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/AEScan/AEScanjpg/ae0302-myope.jpg
> But as always with such queries (like last year's 'What's the Sanskrit for "go with the flow"?'), one has first to ask whether there is a Sanskritic concept that might correspond to English "mysticism."   And, most probably, there isn't, quite.  Much interesting work has been done on incommensurability in translation theory.
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> Dominik
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> On 29 April 2012 13:49, Harsha Dehejia <harshadehejia at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Friends~
>  
> What is the best Sanskrit word for mysticism?
>  
> Regards.
>  
> Harsha

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