| The sociocosmic field binds the bodies of living humans to myriad collectivities of doubles and other people, dead ancestors and yovevo spirits. |
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| Thus the Gita champions the theory of varnasramadbarma as upholding the sociocosmic order. |
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| The notion of the smaller or sociocosmic universe is integrally tied to the Puranic notion of dharma. |
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| The apparent contradiction involved in accommodating a collective sociocosmic process unrelated to human conduct to the karma of individual action is never fully resolved. |
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| First, I provide a synthetic formulation of the contrast between the two types of sociocosmic regimes that I have been developing at various points of the book. |
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| It has remained a cardinal principle that only Brahmans have the authority to perform the most important rituals that preserve and renew the sociocosmic order. |
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