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Ṛta (Rita) as
Universal Generating Machine By the druid Finn The ancient Vedic concept of ṛta (RITA) was
not a moral or religious principle, but an early articulation of a universal,
rule-governed generative system. Stripped of later ethical, moral and
theological overlays, ṛta is
shown to name the operational structure by which reality itself produces,
sustains, and regulates identifiable emergents. ṛta functions as a Universal Generating
Machine: a constraint-based procedure that makes causality, repetition,
truth, and efficacy possible. ṛta (RITA) is
not merely a global order imposed on passive entities, but a distributed
system whose performance depends on the coherent execution of its local
outputs. Each emergent—whether named jīva, ātman, soul, or agent—is interpreted as a local
runtime instance of ṛta. Internal
incoherence, contradiction, and misalignment are therefore not primarily
moral failures, but procedural degradations: forms of internal drag that
impair both local and systemic performance. Within this framework, classical concepts such as svadharma, apūrva, karma,
and mokṣa (liberation) are
reinterpreted in technical terms. Svadharma becomes
the local constraint-profile governing a token’s proper execution; apūrva becomes stored performance residue generated
by imperfect runs; karma becomes the persistence of unresolved
execution states; and mokṣa becomes
the achievement of zero-residue execution. Liberation is thus not
metaphysical escape, but successful completion: the point at which a token no
longer requires re instantiation because it introduces no further drag into
the system. The doctrine of rebirth follows necessarily from
this procedural ontology. Rebirth is not divine judgment or moral
reward and punishment, but the system’s retry mechanism: the technical
requirement to re-instantiate underperforming components until coherent
execution is achieved. Suffering and reward are interpreted as
system-level feedback, reflecting degrees of fit or misfit between local
execution and global constraints. The druid’s Procedure Monism emerges as a
contemporary, scientifically articulated upgrade of this ancient Vedic
intuition. What ṛta (Rita) expressed
mythically and ritually, Procedure Monism states explicitly in
systems-theoretic language: reality is a universal procedure, emergents are local executions, coherence is performance,
(karmic-) residue is stored error, and freedom is systemic. Procedure
Monism is not a rival metaphysics but the modern conceptual grammar of an
ancient procedural insight. The druid Finn presents ṛta
as an early formulation of a distributed generative ontology in which the
universe runs only insofar as its outputs run clean. To exist is already to
be an executor within this system, and liberation is the completion of
that execution without residue. Apūrva, Karmic
Residue, and Rebirth Ṛta as Universal Generating Machine Apūrva, Karmic Residue, and Rebirth. Adv. The druid Finn also said: |