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La salvación y la supervivencia ya no dependían de ritos externos;
Salvation and survival no longer depended upon external rites;
La meditación solitaria podía ser tan eficaz como los ritos externos.
Solitary meditation could be just as efficacious as the external rites.
Dependía de ritos externos, cuyo efecto era mágico y con ellos pretendían controlar el universo;
It depended upon external rites, which were magical in effect and intended to control the universe;
Pero, para Yajnavalkya, la creación de un yo inmortal no se conseguía mediante ritos externos, sino por ese conocimiento cuidadosamente adquirido.
But for Yajnavalkya, the creation of an immortal self was not achieved by external rites, but by this carefully acquired knowledge.
A menos que un sabio aprendiese a ver a través de los ritos externos su significado interno, nunca sería consciente de la absoluta realidad de lo Brahmán en su núcleo.
Unless a sage learned to look through the external rites to their inner meaning, he would never become aware of the absolute reality of brahman at their core.
En nuestro mundo moderno, suponemos a menudo que el ritual supone una conformidad servil, pero los ritualistas brahmines habían usado su ciencia para liberarse de los ritos externos y los dioses, y crearon un sentido completamente nuevo de su yo independiente y autónomo.
In our modern world, ritual is often thought to encourage a slavish conformity, but the Brahmin ritualists had used their science to liberate themselves from the external rites and the gods, and had created a wholly novel sense of the independent, autonomous self.
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