[akandabaratam] Psychology and Metaphysics-5

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Dear Friends,

 

Vanakkam and Namaste to all.

 

Hindusim acknowledges via the Gita that there are several avenues open to

humankind in reaching the Paramatma. Surely we should not plan to fail by

enslaving our minds through the theme of one book, one philosophy as a

panacea when Bhagwan has given us several choices?

If the ancient rishis had thought that one book is sufficient, we will not

be having the rich inheritence that we have today in the abundance of

vedantic knowledge.

 

The nature of universe is such that there is constant flux and constant

equilibrium amidst constant change.

That universal order can be disturbed only at great peril by fixations.

 

Our Hindu tradition has always welcome even revolutionaries in thinking such

as Shankara. Let us keep it that way.

 

Happy new year to all.

Respectfully,

Sathia,

KL, Malaysia.

 

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Note from List Moderators:

 

Namaste Sri Sathia,

 

Happy new year,

 

We do agree that Hinduism recognizes and respects many avenues in reaching

Paramatma. That is why we have millions of gods, traditions and worshiping

patterns. But at the same time everyone of us is tuned to our own convictions

and beliefs. Those who joined this egroup have their conviction on Advaita

Vedanta

philosophy synthesized by Adi Shankara. It is quite possible that this

philosophy

may have its shortcomings and the members are quite aware but have the spiritual

maturity to accept the philosophy even though others still may have doubts.

 

Fortunately, there are over thousand email lists that discuss various aspects of

Hinduism and members with varied interests join according to their preference.

This is quite reasonable because we have limited time and resources and each

list

focuses one important aspect so that like minded people could exchange their

view

points and enhance their understanding. If all the thousands of lists are

combined

into one, each one of us will be receiving about 10,000 or more emails per day!

That is impratical. The Hindu temples spread across the nations of the universe

and

each temple focuses mostly on one or at the most few deities. No one has ever

built

a temple with all the millions of gods worshipped by Hindus and the reason is

simple and does not need further explanations.

 

We are all pressed for time and members rightly feel that their mailboxes are

filled

with large volumes of articles with little relevance to their belief and

conviction.

Some of the objections from the members should be understood with proper

perpectives.

We know that members of this list are open minded but at the same time they do

not

want to join discussing materials that they are not familiar with.

 

We hope that you understand our difficulty,

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"Dr. K. Loganathan" <subas

[akandabaratam] Re: Re: Psychology and Metaphysics-5

Sun, 14 Apr 2002 18:04:06 +0800

 

Dear Friends,

 

I am quite confused about the reactions perhaps all because for the time

being I have found it

difficult to reconcile certain imlpications of Advaita Philosophy and as

interpreted by me.

This negative reaction is quite puzzling especially in view of what  has

been stated  as the

policy  of this group viz.

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