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Re: ARTICLE : Biased Reuters news reporting again ! .. is it any surprise ?
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : Biased Reuters news reporting again ! .. is it any surprise ?
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From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 12:24:33 GMT
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Apparently-To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
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Organization: Consolidated Braincells Inc.
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References: <ghenDwqLwI.BKK@netcom.com> <ghenDwt2DL.MG9@netcom.com> <5077j0$rd0@news.ececs.uc.edu> <ghenDx64F4.19H@netcom.com> <ghenDx7vpM.5DJ@netcom.com>
dchakrav@netserv.unmc.edu (Dhruba Chakravarti) wrote in article
<ghenDx7vpM.5DJ@netcom.com>...
>Dear Jaldharji:
>
> I am honored to have you, a senior among us, and also commend your
efforts
> to contain the 'junior aurangzeb(s)'. I imagine that I am in the
> juniors' list, and that Sri Aurobindo is the 'Sanskrt-illiterate Bengali
> clerk' in question.
>
Good guess but I was refering to Vivekanand. I have no objection to
anyone following him or Aurobindo or any of those people. Many religions
have been created in India, I'm sure many more will. Just don't pretend
these religions have anything to do with the living tradition of the
Vedas. And don't pretend modern interpretations are correct ones.
> It would be inappropriate for me to try to judge Sri Aurobindo's
> competence in Sanskrit language.
Me neither, as that would require me to actually read his stuff. All I
know is none of my teachers ever felt the need to quote his work even to
attack it. If those more learned than I saw no reason to read him than
neither do I. We are not in favor of novelty. To call something "new and
improved" is no compliment to us. The test of a philosophy is its
commitment to age-old principles.
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Consolidated Braincells Inc. / \
http://www.braincells.com/jaldhar/ Perth Amboy-> *.--._/
"Witty quote" - Dead Guy finger me for PGP key v McQ!
