Tuesday, October 16, 2007

I mean good

Peeking at me from those last few pages of the book was my own name. In his expedition to prove quality as the Tao and universe as being inherently moral, Robert Pirsig in his Lila was looking for a similar line of thought in the human history to as far back as he could go. While looking at the meaning of the word 'good' in the thesaurus the Victorian virtue lead him to the Greek arete and he had stopped there in his first book. As he was investigating the true root of the word in this second book, I found myself impatiently shouting out 'It is Rta, it is Rta'. Rta- the vedic term for the moral order of the universe, or in other words whatever is true, or reality in general. Thats where my name comes from - 'RITESH'(Rta - Eesh). He did eventually find it.