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Sri Dileepan writes -

 

- (2) as it is I am happy to suspend

- logic and accept the vEdhaas as unchanging truths that simply

- came into existance; one more illogical concept won't hurt me

- too much, and most importantly, (3) these are secondary

 

Sir, I don't see why the claim of the Veda

as an eternal truth is illogical. To quote

my favorite advaitic Swami once again, :-)

 

"by the vedas no books are meant. They are

the eternal verities, the principles

that form the warp and woof of the

Universe. By our [hindu] conception,

they are akin to a flowing river, and

the rishis who discovered them were

like pilgrims who dipped into them

and brought the lifegiving waters to

others on the banks. If ever the hindu

race forgets the vedas, that river will

continue to flow - they will

continue to signify that eternal truth,

and still constitute the

principle on which the universe is built.

It is in this sense that the vedas have

no beginning and no end."

 

Sounds pretty reasonable, does it not ?

 

- Mani, I think you are a little hasty here. The hell

- we are talking about is not the Christian kind, eternal.

- It is just a place to compensate your bad karma; and a

- little pain can be very therapeutic! One does get a chance

- for atonement, in the next birth.

 

Exactly. In no way can the puranic hell be

compared to the unreasonable, cruelty for

cruelty's sake hell of the god of the

Christians or Muslims. The puranic hell

is a temporary region where you cool

your heels, pay your dues, kick yourself

for having been stupid and nasty,

resolve to do better and get back to

get yet another chance to do it right.

 

-

- Let me repeat for good measure what I mentioned at the

- beginning, I am simply accepting these notions as

- described by poorvaachaaryaas; I don't see any benefit

- in trying to apply logic with these.

-

 

I find both these notions quite reasonable.

Indeed, since often my measure of truth is

(let me confess) poetic beauty ( I am a disciple

of Keats among others ), the claim of

the veda rings very true. Atleast it ought

to be true. Nothing has a right to be

so beautiful without being true.

 

Raghu Seshadri