interesting group, but.....

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tendencies to more postive outlook. Also the problems that you are focusing on

mostly due to 'ignorance.' Simple theories and/or simple life can become complex

if we honestly don't attempt to remove our ignorance. May we request you to

provide some simple solutions to the problems addressed by you. As you have

rightly pointed out that doing 'pujas' or prayers or spiritual discussions is

just a good beginning and is certainly not the end point!

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Hello everyone,

 

I pay my due respects to all of you and to all those well versed

ones..... I have read a couple of messages in this group and was

simply amazed at the level of knowledge of the scriptures you people

have. But one gnawing question still remains with me. Why all this

discussion and all these complex theories of Ishwara, Atman, Brahman

and all that. Is there any worth in all that? Those who already are

so well versed in the scriptures must be on the path of realization.

 

But what I witness with most people around me (I don't quite know how

all of you do) are just sitting and doing some puja daily. (Not that

pujas are bad, but that after the puja no real change in the person

comes about. He would shout at his wife or children or would get

worried about the next month's salary or income tax....) It becomes

hard to imagine that this could ever lead to the path of realization

of the truth.

 

The realization of the truth is (as I understand it, pleas correct me

if I am wrong) to know the truth as it is without any shade of doubt

about it, and I don't think it is possible to realize the truth

through falsehood, but only by realizing what is false and what is

true. In other words shouldn't we be trying to develop our faculty of

discerning the truth? Shouldn't we be trying to do away with

this 'Maya'? (which is after all just a euphemistic way of

saying 'Ignorance')

 

I however, do not wish to stop these discussions, they would inspire

one to enter the truth. But please remeber that this is only shrutha-

maya-prajna and that bhavana-maya-prajna is still to be acheived only

through experience.

 

-Balaji