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Re: Questions
On 17 Dec 1995 21:14:35 GMT, Kartik wrote in soc.religion.hindu:
>
>I have 4 questions.
All of these questions imply misunderstanding of the terms used.
The prescription is more thorough study.
>-Question 1- TO ALL HINDUS-
This whole question implies a misunderstanding of karma.
Happiness and unhappiness are not related to karma.
>-Question 2- TO THE ADVAITINS-
>
>If the world is illusory, why practise anything at all?
>Why renounce the world since that is illusory?
>Why not just have a good time in this world instead of
>practising religion, since they are all Maya anyway?
Although I am not an Advaitin, I have studied it.
These questions evidence a misunderstanding of "illusory", a
misunderstanding of "renounce", a misunderstanding of "world", and a
misunderstanding of "maya".
A good text here is "The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi"
(published by Shambhala Books).
>-Question 3 - TO THE VAISHNAVAS
I'll leave this to the Vaishnavas.... but I'll make a comment or two.
>Assuming Buddha to be God( I think it is mentioned in the
>Srimad Bhagavatam),why do you still believe in Idol-worship?
Do they? I've never found that to be true...
>(Since Buddha was against idol-worship).
I've never heard this either.....
>-Question 4 -TO THE HARE-KRISHNAS-
>
>I recently visited the Hare-Krishna home-page and found
>a piece on Hinduism. To be precise what I'm talking about,
>the URL number for that is-
>
> http://aristotle.algonet.se/~krishna/_q_20.htm
>
> There, I came across a passage saying-
I think you took the following statements out of context.
If you choose a very small number of words to quote, you can probably
make a case that anyone said anything you choose.
Certainly each chapter of scripture has a message as a whole, taking
one sentence doesn't tell you much.
Just to give an example, in one newsgroup some months ago, someone
quoted sentences from Ken Wilber and George Feuerstein to show that
they thought the opposite of what I think. After getting the books,
I found that those statements were taken out of context and seemed to
say the opposite of what they really meant.
Cheers,
Ken
kstuart@snowcrest.net
(if messages to me are retuned,
send the error messages/bounced messages to ken@macshasta.com)
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