Semantics and Sanskrit

[Guest guest]

Namaste,Wim et al,

 

I find it non productive to argue about the meaning of Sanskrit

expressions in English.

They do not translate literally at all.

So whether a person says they achieve moksha, or there is

liberation or not liberation, because we are already liberated etc

etc is all non productive. We all know roughly what Moksha means in

English it means Liberation. In Sanskrit it means Moha Kshaya

or 'destruction of illusion or work of Maya'. So technically one

could argue to do this requires some achievement-------see what I

mean?? I could go on with other translations of sankrit that convey

different meanings etc but what it the point?

If one talks of Moksha or Mukti, or Liberation or Freedom, or any

other word that actually attempts to describe the indescibable or

something that cannot me experienced even----what is the point.

 

So lets not get into picking up on semantics, especially Sanskrit.

Lets just take a person at face value and know what he means by

Moksha etc, in our own state of prajna..........ONS..Tony.

[Guest guest]

, "Tony OClery" <aoclery> wrote:

> Namaste,Wim et al,

>

> I find it non productive to argue about the meaning of Sanskrit

> expressions in English.

 

Right, Tony, I appreciate that you won't argue anymore then...

Maybe with that in mind, you can read the post again and hopefully

this time around without getting tempted to see it as a topic for

discussion and feeling the need to argue it...

 

Like I wrote, there is power in words, if mantras are effective, then

by the same token mismatched expressions are effective too, in the

negative way though...

 

Wim