Guest guest Posted January 9, 2002 Report Share Posted January 9, 2002 I just read a good and challenging article called “Is Bhakti a Science” by Kundali Prabhu. For those who are philosophically inclined, I’m giving you the URL at the end. I put for you here some excerpts of his essay. I choose them at random but they show you my scepticism, if not my complete disagreement, about his assertion that Bhakti should be define as a science even in our modern terminology as well as in our social understanding. Although I could not read carefully his paper (I cannot do that with computers, but should print the matter to study it) I admire his effort for sharing his realization. ======= “We have argued that bhakti is really a science, a “sacred science” that begins or is inspired by revelation, then proceeds to experimentation and provable results, and so it is not blind faith.”… “In effect, bhakti purifies the senses and the reasoning faculty and makes them fit to penetrate the construct reality.” … “So, one who has duly cultivated bhakti eventually arrives at the mature stage wherein his senses are purified and his reason and his entire consciousness become wholly transformed and he comes face to face with the truth, with pure reality. This reality is no longer a construct. Rather, that truth which always eludes the grasp of conventional science comes within the grasp of the bhakta.”… “So, while bhakti is a subjective experience, it is still a science in the conventional sense, for it gives a systematic set of laws and a fixed technique whereby the predicted outcome can be achieved.”… “Hence the laws of bhakti are not probable; they are certain. Therefore, bhakti is a science through and through.”… http://www.saragrahi.org/forum/science.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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