Guest guest Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 Om Sreem Mahalakshmiei Namaha Dear Gurujis, Namasthe. I am writing this on behalf of a friend of mine. He feels that from his childhood(around 11/12 years) he has some intuition that his purpose in this life is something diffrent than what he is doing. He feels he has not found out that until now. So his question is what is his purpose of this janma. His birth time is not accurate or rectified. He said Janmashtami in 1970 after midnight. So I am assuming the following Date and Time. August 24, 1970 00:30 AM Hyderabad Pranaam Srinivasa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 We need to seperate two intenSions of purpose of life: one in the context of religions that Christianity, Islam, Judaism are; another in the context of Indian traditions. Christianity, Islam, Judaism inculcates the experience that the world embodies purpose or intenTion or Will of Lord God, Allah; that is, the world that was, is, and will be, has meaning. In this context, look at the role of human actions: the meaning/purpose of an is a redescription of an action; once stripped of the context that gives meaning or redescription, the action has no meaning. What these empirical religions like christianity says is this: all human actions, even after stripped of the context, have a pattern, and this pattern is the Will/purpose of God. In the context of Indian traditions: actions, after stripped of the context that gives meaning, are meaningless. Enlightenment or gyaanodaya, which is learnable and whih is, to the contrary of what is preached on this board, neither esoteric nor exotic, helps one see the meaninglessness of our actions. One does not need 'grace' of anybody, in order to be enlightened: the problem Indian traditions pose is: Is our experience of ourselves veridical? They say, our experience of ourselves is not veridical but necessary. How to access the truth of experience? Of course, western psychologists, Freud, etc have claimed that truth of the experience is *inaccessible* to the one whose experience it is, but accessible through a third person, say, some psychoanalyst; On the contrary, Indian traditions say, the truth of such experience that our experience is not veridical-- for instance, in buddha's sense there is no structure to be experience; in Shankara's sense there is a structure, which is Atman and which is present in everyone's experience--is accessible to the one whose experience it is. One can get try to access this truth--either by brute-force manner, or thru fast-track, say, by means of Guru/mediator. Cast 'the' horoscope, and see the 'purpose' of life! vedic astrology, "padmanu" <padmanu> wrote: > Om Sreem Mahalakshmiei Namaha > > Dear Gurujis, > > Namasthe. I am writing this on behalf of a friend of mine. > He feels that from his childhood(around 11/12 years) he has some > intuition that his purpose in this life is something diffrent than what > he is doing. He feels he has not found out that until now. So his > question is what is his purpose of this janma. > > His birth time is not accurate or rectified. He said Janmashtami in 1970 > after midnight. So I am assuming the following Date and Time. > > August 24, 1970 00:30 AM > Hyderabad > > > Pranaam > Srinivasa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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