To be read

[Guest guest]

Read a mellow article from Satsvarupa Maharaja in the BTG: “Optimism and

Pessimism”. He found something good in Voltaire! That’s audacity to confront

the great enemy of religion to “the best of all possible worlds” of Lebniz and

ending with Voltaire’s morality: “Well said, but we have to cultivate our

garden.” Maharaja means by that that “there is little use in philosophizing

abstractly about cause and effect, but rather, we can live practically and

faithfully in the world.”

 

Then Maharaja goes to ---Schopenhauer! A non-practicing but fervent Buddhist

philosopher; a nihilist. An impersonalist. He was the opposite of Lebniz. The

latter “posited after studding the Upanishads, was that we live in the worst

possible worlds.” To be read!