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Moral Relativism
K. Sadananda (sadananda@anvil.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
: If you find peace that passth all understanding through Bhakti on Lord
: Krishna - good for you.
: If others find the same peace and tranquillity through the worship of Siva
: or Ganesha or Satya Sai Baba - and some through Gyana - Good for them too.
:
: Any claims that your experience alone is right and not the others borders
: to fanaticism than logic.
: Like wise any claims that only Sri Prabhupada is the authentic teacher and
: his interpretation titled "as it is" is the right interpretation since he
: decends from Krishna and other teachers have no guruparampara- that is his
: belief. Who am I to question his belief? Belief is belief and not logic.
: I respect his belief even if he does not respect mine! As long as he does
: not thrust his belief on me imposing that I should also believe the same
: thing.
Okay, let's get one thing clear here.
I'm going to summarize the gist of what you just said, so do correct me if
I have misunderstood you:
What you are saying is, there is no absolute truth, everyone should just do
as they wish, and those of us who believe we are in the right should not
attempt to preach to others.
There is no one correct interpretation of scriptures. ONe interpretation is
as good as another, right? So, a Vivekananda interpretation which condones
meat-eating and goat-slaughter or a Bhagavan Sri Rajneesh interpretation
which encourages free sex is just as good as a Prabhupada translation which
prescribes austerity and devotional service.
Is this what you are saying? Essentially that there is no authority? Please
clarify, because that's exactly the impression i have gotten from every single
one of your posts.
Haribol!
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