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Re: Reincarnation? Karma?
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Reincarnation? Karma?
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From: mpt@mail.utexas.edu (michael tandy)
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Date: 15 Jul 1995 04:29:30 GMT
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From news@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu Sat Jul 15 00: 18:01 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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References: <3tujff$7je@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
In article <3tujff$7je@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, dwaite@aladdin.co.uk (Dennis Waite) says:
>My understanding of 'original sin' is the wanting of something for
>oneself, regardless of what everyone else gets. It is the
>identification of one's true Self with something in the external world
>i.e. Aham-kara instead of the pure Aham - 'I am this or that' instead
>of 'I am'. I think we are all guilty of that!
Of course, that's why we are here; but at the same time, to
employ the term "original" sin can be misleading, for in fact
karma is anadi, or beginningless. We can only arbitrate a
particular point as "the beginning," and perhaps calculate
an 'original' situation from that point. However, sometimes
the term 'nitya-baddha' is applied to conditioned jivatmas
because they have been conditioned so long as to be 'eternally'
so, for all practical purposes. We get a sense of this when
Krsna discusses the length of simply one day of Brahmaji,the
engineer of this universe--1,000,000 yugas!
-m
