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prey on old people.

street courtesy at a low level

The Dreamlike World of India p15 from Vol10 Collected Works of Jung[?] Arrlingstion[?] in transition

...things unroll like a film, unimaginably rich in colour and shape, every-changing, lasting a few days or a few centuries, but essentially transitory, dreamlike a multi-coloured veil of maya.

p516

Human life appears to be curiously flimsy in every respect. ...a jumble of incidentally piled up human halritations. The people carry on an apparently meaningless life, eagerly, busily noisily. They die and are born in ceaseless waves, always much the same, a gigantic monotony of endlessly repeated life.

In all that flimsiness and vain tumult, one is conscious of immeasurable age with no history. After all why should there be recorded history? All her native greatness is in any case anonymous and impersonal, like the greatness of Babylon and Egypt.

...In India there seems to be nothing that has not lived a hundred thousand times before. Even the unique individual of today has already lived immeasurable times in past ages. The world itself

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is nothing but a renewal of world existence, which has happened many times before.

...No wonder then, theat the gods too have their numerous [illegible]

p516-517

To be born, to die, to be sick, greedy, dirty, childish, ridiculously vain, miserable, hungry, vicious; to be manifestly stuck in illiterate unconsciousness, to be suspended in a narrow universe of good and evil gods to be protected by charms and helpful mantras, that is perhaps the real life, life as it was meant to be, the life of the earth. Life in India has not yet withdrawn into the capsule of the head. It is still the whole body that lives.

When you walk with naked feet how can you ever forget the earth?

p518

Even the temples of [illegible] are small and not very impressive, if it were not for their noisiness and dirt.

p519

...India takes the family seriously. There is no amateurishness or sentimentality about it. It is understood to be the undispensable form of life, inescapable, necessary, and self-evident. It needs a religion to break this law and to make "homelessness" the first step to saintliness.

p523