RE: Can knowledge only come from certain sources or scriptures or gurus?

[Guest guest]

Good point Sam. For those who may not know, Sam is a retired Math Professor

and a great chess player (as is David Hodges)!

 

In Math, Music, and Chess, the gifted prodigy shines early.

I heard a lot of stories about mathematicians growing up. My uncle was the

youngest Ph.D. in Math at the University of Illinois at the age of 23 in the

1950s. That record has been beat many times and now I have heard of

teenagers and even much younger getting their Ph.D.s in Mathematics at

famous universities like Harvard.

 

My father told me that my uncle's genius was evident to everyone when he was

in 3rd and 4th grades. When my father used to pick my uncle up from school

(he was about 10 years older than my uncle) and ask him how he did on the

test, invariably my uncle would say 100%!

 

Of course Tony has a point. Gauss had probably been studying math for many

lives! :-).

 

That is now these things go. I will pass this on to Advaitin. Ramji is a

mathematician as well!

 

Love to all

Harsha

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Sam [s.Pasiencier]

Monday, May 10, 2004 10:56 AM

Re: Can knowledge only come from certain sources

or scriptures or gurus?

 

 

Correction

 

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Sam <S.Pasiencier

Monday, May 10, 2004 4:44 PM

Re: Can knowledge only come from certain sources

or scriptures or gurus?

 

I think Gauss was exaggerating.

 

If I remember correctly he showed his mathematical genius even as a young

child.

 

If he is the person I'm thinking of, once to keep him quiet a teacher asked

him to add up all the numbers from 1 to 100. He was done in minutes.

 

Asked how he did it he explained that he did it from both ends at once.

1+100= 101, 99+2= 101, 98 + 3 = 101,. then he only needed to figure out how

many 101's, there were and multiply the two numbers. I leave this as an

exercise for the reader.

 

Cheers, Sam

 

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Harsha <harsha

advaitin ;

Monday, May 10, 2004 3:48 PM

Can knowledge only come from certain sources or

scriptures or gurus?

 

Sri Ramana has said that Self is the True Guru. Outside gurus, and in fact

all sources of knowledge, are simply reflections of the Self.

 

Self is unlimited in its capacity to express itself so all constraints put

on IT (that it can only be found this way or that way) are illusory.

 

There is a famous quote in the Upanishads that goes something like, "Self

reveals It Self to those who seek to know it and meditate on it."

 

It is always like that, even in worldly matters. Gauss, a famous German

mathematician was once asked, how did he become such a genius. He simply

said that if anyone spent as much time as he did with mathematics they would

also become a genius!

 

Truth Reveals It Self as the Self shining as One without a second, as One's

very own Being.

 

Self is not other than who we are, it is not somewhere else, other than

where we are.

 

Self can manifest in anyway it chooses and reveal It Self according to the

mental makeup of the aspirant.

 

Love to all

Harsha