New posting on village life in Tamil Nadu - Moderators' response

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I am aware that this message will be moderated and I would not expect

it to posted publicly. I only wanted to respond to this message to

suggest that the ensuing discussion did, in fact, BECOME relevant to

Advaita. I am very new and my knowledge is limited to my own ideas and

the few books I have been able to read thus far.

 

Some of the replies during the discussion gave me some valuable insight

into the philospohy of Advaita itself. The relevence of the discussion,

in my own humble opinion, was the simple notion of what was or was not

relevant to Advaita. Further, some of the replies illustrated how even

the seeming irrelevant could be viewed in a manner which WAS relevant;

how, because there are not two things, one discussion is not more or

less relevant than another, in truth, and how anything can be seen in a

way that is appropriate to the philosophy.On 7/21/08, advaitins <advaitins wrote:

 

 

 

 

Dear Richard and other respected members:

 

Currently the list only moderates the messages from the newly

enrolled members. Members who have been posting responsibly for most

of the time have not been moderated. When a member violates any of

the list polices, he or she will be reminded with a warning not to

repeat such violations. The repeating violators (less than 5 so far)

will be put under moderation and their messages will be reviewed by

one of the moderators before releasing to the list.

 

Now questions have been raised regarding the message from Sri Richard

regarding its relevance to Vedanta and specifically with respect to

Sankara's Advaita. Strictly according to the guidelines of the list,

certain contents of the linked webpage may not be relevant. But

Richard did not post the complete contents of the webpage as a

message but just provided the link. The issue is whether it is

relevant for members to discuss the contents of that webpage in this

list and the moderators do believe that it is not RELEVENT!

 

In future members are requested not to discuss the contents of a web

page that are not relevant with respect to Vedanta. Also members

including Sri Richard who posts link should state appropriate

warnings such as the following:

1. The post link with a summary of a typical village life in South

India is only for information.

2. Some aspects of the link page may likely be objectionable to some

members of the list.

3. If anyone wants to discuss the contents of the webpage, please

correspond with me through private emails.

 

Finally, we request members to stop discussing the contents of the

linked homepage.

 

Thanks again for your cooperation and understanding.

 

Advaitin List Moderators

 

advaitin , " Richard Clarke " <richard wrote:

>

> I have a new posting for you to look at, on village life in South

> India. This is about a family feast we attended yesterday in a

village

> about 60 KM from Tiruvannamalai.

>

> 2008/07/19/family-feast-in-gondapatai-village-

tamil-nadu/

>

> Read and enjoy.

>

> Om Arunachala,

> Richard

>