Nice

In Norwegian "Vrang" means either something turned inside out or about a difficult person.
The way it is used is : 'he turned himself wrong', telling why it did not work out.


Is it the verb 'vrijen' in dutch?



Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Wim
To: AdyashantiSatsang (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com ; harshasatsangh (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 5:29 AM
Subject: [HarshaSatsangh] Right and wrong were never opposites and
wrong was a way to get things right.
Not sure which email got me to right (oops) this today, it must have been on HS

The words “right, wrong and sin”
.... original meanings...

The Sanskrit roots RAG, WAR and AS.

The English word “wrong” derives originally from the Aryan root WAR
(whirling, winding, turning or twisting). In old English “wrong” used
to be the past tense or past participle of the verb “to wring”. Wrong
and wringing come to us via the Sanskrit word VRIJ (pronounce vrizj),
which had to do with wringing clothes from excess washing water or dye
by twisting it with a torque-like movement. The result was that as
fabric or garments got pulled out of shape, they became “wrong”. The
rightness or straightness was still there, but hidden in the garment.
The act of “righting” (Aryan root RAG) would pull the “wrong” straight
again.

So, wrong is a form of right, just messed up and rectifiable.

That the words right and wrong have opposite meanings is a quite
recent development: AD 1500. They were used as translations of the
Latin words “rectus” and “sinister’ which mean right and left-handed.
The scholastic and ecclesiastic use of these words by means of sermons
on bible texts affected these words’ meaning in a moralistic way...

Interesting that sinister would mean the left hand.

Sinister is of course Latin and quite likely comes from “sine” meaning
“without, short of or taken away”, sin or debt. The Aryan root AS from
which “sin” derives means “leave behind, throw away or reject”.

What does the word sinister have to do with bean counter, intelligence and accounting?

“Intel*lig*ence” as well as “legend, legible, legislate and law
(French lire - to read; loi - law) all derive from the Sanskrit root
RAG (LAG) “row, rule(r), string”.
A string or a wire was used to collect beans, seeds or small stones,
like a mala or rosary. This eventually led to the calculus and
eventually the calculator. Anyway, an “accountant” while “counting
beans” used the sinister or left hand to swipe beans away, to take
them away. It was the negative hand, creating debt or “sin”.
When Jesus talked about forgiving debt or sin, he meant “forgive that
what we are short of” or “what has been taken away from us by
sinister forces”.

Of course in the past (as it is still in India) the left hand was used
to do “nothing” with but… “wiping your behind”.

The word “right” derives from the Sanskrit root RAG (LAG) “row, order,
rule(r) or string”. Law and order (legal matter) stem from it, to
straighten things out, to make right.

“Make straight the way of the Lord” can actually be translated as,
“Rightness is the Law of the Virtuous” (Dao De Jing).
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