Guest guest Posted January 29, 2000 Report Share Posted January 29, 2000 I guess life is "Laughing Buddha in the market place" On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Ram Chandran wrote: > Ram Chandran <chandran > > Greetings Gummuluruji: > > The question that you have raised and your explanations are quite > fascinating. These are my observations: > > We as observers of our life and surrounding have different levels of > understanding of the living and liberated. > > We perceive a living person by his/her physical form - height, weight, body > shape, color, speech, manners, actions, knowledge, etc. > > We perceive a dead person by our past acquaintance of that person either > through past direct or indirect contact when he/she was a living person. > > One of the main problem that all our conclusions are subject our limitations > in understanding and our failure to recognize those limitations. Consequently > our conclusions will not completely answer these fundamental questions. From > the scientific point of view, death is recognized by a set of attributes - > stop of the heat-beat, no breath, body stiffness, etc. > > For the philosophical point of view, we don't have an answer for the question: > what is life? > According to Vedas (also restated in Gita), life has no beginning and no end! > > regards, > > Ram Chandran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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