Digest Number 438 Bible 7 Sanatana Dharma

[Guest guest]

The Bible and Santana Dharma

 

The Torah or Five Books of Moses, the Prophets and Kings are all simply a

record of a Bronze age Tribe¹s chauvanistic political, social and religions

imperialism. There is no philosophy or esoteric teaching in the bible other

than some "subhashitas" in the Book of Ecclesiastes. To equate this tribal

record with the philosophy of Sanatana Dharma I feel is drawing a rather

long bow. Especially since some very monstrous things have been espoused and

sanctioned by Jehovah such as ethnic cleansing ­ the Israelites were the

only tribe on earth to have successfully exterminated seven entire nations ­

every massacre being faithfully recorded in the books of Deuteronomy and

Joshua. The anger, hatred, wrathfull imprecations and total lack of

compassion of this Jehovah cannot in any way be equated with the

compassionate nature of Sriman Narayana (saulabhya and saushilya). I think

these books: Bible and Quran should be left for their respective believers

to do with as they wish ­ Sanatana Dharma is rich enough in itself and

stands alone without seeking to justify or support our spiritual tradition

with spurious validation from other traditions especially those of the

Abrahmic co-alition.

 

Sri Rama Ramanuja Acharya

[Guest guest]

Dear learned members,

First one has to learn how to distingush Abrahamic religions from

Eastern Thought. Just blindly giving discourses on comparison of East

vs West does not make sense at all.

 

Abrahamic religions are surviving because of Aristotlian logic of

Duality-

 

I reposting the first 2 para-s of the abstract of "Aristotle's Logic

of Duality vs. 'sarvam Khalu idam brahma', which will be discussed at

forthcoming WAVES conference @ UMAss, dartmouth around 12-15 of July.

 

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The notion (or reality) of Brahman or Paramatman of the

Astika traditions is fundamentally different from that of

God in western traditions of the last 2,300 years. Likewise,

definitions, perceptions and practices of religions

fundamentally differ in the East from those in the West. It

is proposed that this East vs. West dichotomy resulted from

Aristotle's logic of duality that separated body and spirit

indelibly in the West.

 

Aristotle kept our common God outside the universe, ushering

in several centuries of man-to-man conflicts, exploitations,

slaveries, wholesale murders, and tyranny.

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Aristotle's duality is of matter and Spirit (God), i.e.,

matter is totally devoid of Spirit: "we and everything in

this universe are pure matter-energy ensemble, GOd exists

outside of it and controls it." It is logic of ignorant

mind, really.

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Recently, We notice how English educated hindu-s are selling hindu

thoughts to NON-hindus in such a way that our teachings are similar

to Abrahamic religions. It is the current state of english educated

hindu, who lost the foundations of Hindu-tva. It is pretty sad to see

such souls. This era ended by Swami Vivekaananda(who compared the God

of bible to Maaaya), Arabindo.

 

 

Best Regards,

Venkateswara Reddy