The mystical algorithms of transformation of Indian tradition in the light of the «gaming» paradigm of culture

The article is an experience of the reconstruction of transformation mechanisms of Indian cultural tradition in the light of «The game conception of culture» which is termed by the eminent Dutch scientist J. Huizinga. Many examples show the primary meaning of the «game» concept for the better understanding of the fundamental basics of Indian culture and both the mechanisms of its transformation and adaptation to the new historical conditions. The idea of the «game» firstly was formed in the Upani-shads, where it finds its reflection in the Lila's image. It is a divine game which furthers the creation of the world. However, to be well approved in the Indian thinking the divine game idea had to be fixed in the prevailing cultural paradigm according to which the man existence has the sacred meaning. This idea gets the most vivid expression in the Bhagavad-Gita text the philosophy poem, which is the most honorable part of the ancient Indian epos and which laid down the foundations of Indian system of values. Since the Gita was created the count of history of the Hinduism spread in the India starts, which refracted many already developed principles of the ancient Indian culture in the light of the epic vision of the world. Hinduism became the culmination of all its preceding spiritual tradition. The application of that phenomenon of the Huizinga's method to that analysis lets us not only see its new verges but deeper understand the reasons how it was formed on the basis of the ways of getting and transition of the sacred knowledge. All of those things are proper for Indian tradition. In this part the conception of the famous Russian Indologist V.Sementsov complements the main Huizinga's idea. The Sementsov's idea is about that the sacred knowledge transition is not only by transferring some information as it is accepted in the modern education system but this idea is about making the teacher's personality to be incarnated in the disciple. This idea is supplemented by the other idea which is about discovering absolute origin the Bhagavan which is embodied in the personality of Krishna who is the main character of the Bhagavad-Gita text in the individual soul which is called The Atman. Krishna is the alive avatar of the god. This kind of idea which is about both the God and the man relationships, the man's role and position in the world gave the birth to the gathering of the greatest austerity and extreme love of the life. There is no separation but there are the stages of the one way the way of being devotional to the truth and the way of perceiving that truth. The person has to be born on that earth with the goal of inheriting the divine teacher's origin but that person has to perceive that world as if it was a game. It means that a person has to take the world easy, unselfishly and respect its rules. Just as the God leaves the world one day, so also will a man leave that world.

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