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Re: ARTICLE : Becoming Hindu
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : Becoming Hindu
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From: "janahan (j.) skandaraniyam" <skandar@nortel.ca>
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 04:22:03 +0000
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shrao@nyx.net (Shrisha Rao) wrote:
>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.
One's own realizations are justification enough. You don't
need to tackle it after a achieving a certain state.
>To come back to the main question, it is beyond question that
>Vivekananda was not classically well-schooled in Vedanta; that his
^^^^^^^^^^^
Classically?
>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.
You have misunderstood him and his writings. Give me the exact quote.
The concept of dharma IS MEANINGLESS to one who has achieved the Goal.
Dharma, adharma, and all opposites are MEANINGLESS to the realized
one. Dharma is the path, Dharma is not the Goal. As long as one has
not achieved the Goal, one should walk the path of Dharma.
On another note, a few people have e-mailed me and asked how I
could make such a statement, what proof etc. do I have, and
so on. I shall say it again, one's own realizations are strenght
enough. My statement was not based on anything from the physical,
i.e., V's and RK's works etc., it was purely spiritual. Again,
there were few who said that one cannot know anything from
one's own realizations!!!! Ofcourse, I found out that they did
not achieve anything to make such claims. If such is the case,
claim whatever you want!!! If I eat some food and say that it
is salty, and someone who has not tasted it claims it is not,
what can I say? Let them claim whatever they want.
J.
