Guest guest Posted November 25, 1999 Report Share Posted November 25, 1999 > Because you seem to have a preference for empiric sources, and a disdain > for sabda (or at least lets say that you seem to consider empiric sources > as the basis for acceptance and rejection, even over scriptural > testimony), particularly when scriptural testimony (guru, sadhu, shastra) > runs contrary to feminist doctrines (by feminist, I mean the belief in the > social, political, and economic equality of the sexes), your views will > necessarily be faulty, because without sabda (scriptural testimony), your > sensory perception and inference are subject to defect. Srila Prabhupada often used the exemple of the Sastric statements about cow dung. Sastra says it is antiseptic, and modern science demonstrate it is antiseptic. That is a very simple exemple of checking with reality. When we are speaking of conceptions that can affect the way of living and the consciousness of half of the human race, the need of checking with reality, -not with the scope of find mistakes in sastra, but to understand sastra in the right perspective and get the real benefit of sastric knowledge- becomes compulsory. If somebody pretends to stop that checking with reality to offer some prejudicatory based-on-nothing interpretation as the only possible right view, what can be said? I personally will not participate in such a movement. Ys -Bhpud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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