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Re: SWAMI VEDANANDA'S TALK AT GEORGIA TECH
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To: alt-hindu@cis.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: SWAMI VEDANANDA'S TALK AT GEORGIA TECH
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From: susarla@owlnet.rice.edu (H. Krishna Susarla)
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 95 15:40:03 GMT
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From news@larry.rice.edu Sun Apr 23 22: 34:32 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Rice University
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References: <3mn3vd$pfn@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <3mn3vd$pfn@ucunix.san.uc.edu>,
"Vinod S.Nair" <cheaw260@emory.edu> wrote:
>In his talk he expounded on the nature of Advaita Phillosophy. He
>explained how we are not really separate from the infinite but are indeed
>the infinite ourselves!! This he did this through an analogy about the
I'm a little confused. Perhaps someone could clarify this for me.
If I am the infinite, then why am I here in this material world suffering
for all sorts of reasons? I should be able to automatically transcend all
this material nature and realize my position as the infinite. But I can't.
This would seem to imply that the material nature is more powerful than the
infinite. Surely this cannot be?
-- HKS
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- H. Krishna Susarla - "Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or -
- susarla@rice.edu - sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without -
- Rice University - religion is mental speculation." -
- Class of 1995 - -- Swami Srila Prabhupada -
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"Unintelligent men, who do not know Me perfectly, think that I, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, was impersonal before and
have now assumed this personality. Due to their small knowledge,
they do not know My higher nature, which is imperishable and supreme."
- Bhagavad-Gita 7.24
