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Re: ARTICLE : Becoming Hindu
In article <ghenDz6KGq.Cwt@netcom.com>,
janahan (j.) skandaraniyam <skandar@nortel.ca> wrote:
>"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com> wrote:
>
>>Neither Ramakrishna nor Vivekanand were particularly learned but far from
>
>Anyone with their "third eye" opened, even a bit, will know the
>spiritual height of Swami Vivekananda, and will know who Sri Ramakrishna
>really was.
That would need one to justify the existence and worth of the "third
eye," to begin with, and this is a problem I would not care to tackle
myself.
To come back to the main question, it is beyond question that
Vivekananda was not classically well-schooled in Vedanta; that his
writings are considered great because of their having been co-opted by
the modern Hindutva movement, is another matter. For instance, I have
heard that Vivekananda claimed that there is no support for heaven and
hell in Vedic literature. This is easily refuted with a number of
examples, and the whole concept of dharma becomes meaningless if such
is the case.
Regards,
Shrisha Rao
http://www.rit.edu/~mrreee/dvaita.html
> J.
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