then they go one more step into cringe in the oldest upanisad : they equate the sexual parts of a woman with elements of the sacrifice and equate sexual intercourse to a soma sacrifice: > her vulva is a sacrificial altar; her pubic hairs, the sacrificial grass; her skin, the soma-press; and her labia, the fire in the middle. as great indeed as the world gained by one who performs a soma sacrifice, is the world gained by one who, with this knowledge, engages in sexual intercourse. the brhaddmnyaka upanisad (6.4.3) the familial-social duties peaked with procreation. this means also that the human individual is not given any conceptual reality in the hindu society. now that was before the urbanization, the creation of big cities and kingdoms, and the jains and buddhists and all the random ascetics who called bs on the brahmins. no wonder the brahmins were not happy to hear the chud religion is outdated and comical. the ascetics were all about renunciation and meditation, instead of being a householder and fornicating and waving hands in the air during farcical fire rituals. then all of a sudden in the oldest upanisads the weirdest thing happens: it's now the philosopher-kings who teach the brahmins about transmigration. it turns out brahmins didn't really know nor care about that. and the kings begin to teach them various theories about samsara, karma, rebirth, and liberation. so for intsance, the vedic karma of the sacrifice by all brahmins becomes in fact a source of suffering in buddhism and jainism: karma is evil. that's completely backwards from what the brahmins preached in the vedic period. karma was positive and a guarantee of immortality and now karma is evil and keeps you going on the samsaric cycle of births full of suffering. getting out of this mess is not done by procreation and providing for a stay at home mom and her kids leeching off, but to stop creating karma.
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