from c s shah

[Guest guest]

Hi everybody,

 

I am extremely sorry for having hurt the feelings of a few members on

the list.

 

But I have at the first instance removed the offending paragraph. Hence

the second write up should be considered for any further discussion.

 

I say the tragedy was inevitable because the very existence of the world

is based on duality: good and bad, knowledge and ignorance, pleasure and

pain, life and death, etc. Thus, there will be inevitably very noble

incidences as well as very ghastly or evil events also. This cycle has

gone over for time immemorial. History is witness to more horrendous

events. Everyone wants peace and joy because that is our true nature.

 

This is particularly so because inherited spiritual and religious

cultures from ancient times guide us on the path of both Abhyudaya

(social and individual progress) and Nishreyasa (path of renunciation)

for human fulfillment. Today, human evolution has progressed to the

stage where we are prompted to look deeper into our religious beliefs

and spiritual understanding. In one's own religion or faith one is sure

to find treasures of higher truth; the truth of diversity held together

by the unifying substratum of universal divinity.

 

As Swami Ashokananda says: " ...it does not ask us to relinquish one form

in favor of another to realize higher spiritual state. It wants us to

see superior content in the same form by means of inner development.

Even the highest spiritual realizations are possible through image

worship, only the meaning of image worship changes as we progress along

spiritual path. The image itself becomes at spiritualized. It is then

not stone or any other earthly material; it is Spirit itself. The

universe with all its variegated objects appears as divine. "

 

Like the culture of science, of reason and rationality, liberty and

fraternity, of equality and justice, I just felt that experimentation

with globalization of vedantic culture can or might bring more peace and

joy and less of violence.

 

I wanted to say this. But my write up instead has caused unnecessary and

avoidable misunderstanding and hurt in many of the member friends. I

once again say sorry to all the members who had objections to my write

up.

 

I want to put a stop to further discussion on this topic from my side.

 

c s shah

http://www.neovedanta.org

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