01-16-2005, 05:56 AM
Pathma,
I guess we have told each other whatever we have had to say. So there is no point in beating the same track again and again. So this will be my last post.
1. You see no big harm in destruction of kAnchi Matha and sampradAya
2. You see shrI Adi-shankara as a mere grain of sand
3. You are happy to imagine that advaita-vedanta is on its way to doom, or at least think very low of it
4. You said something like 'we are tired of hearing shri bhagavan uvacha'
5. You think vaishnavism is a different religion than shaivism
6. You believe that brahmins deserve some sort of 'karmic' retribution, and any abuse of justice or power is OK and understandable if Brahmins are punished, even after they have become ascetics.
So let me say it as mildly as I can: You are anti-hindu and a caste-bigot.
As far as I am concerned, I am not even a millionths of a grain of sand in front of ShrI Adi Shankara. So there is no point in me trying to reach upto the head of yours which according to you is placed so high that even shri Adi shankara appears to you like a grain of sand.
But your version of the future is NOT going to pass. Because I think the universe is not run according to the wishes of the people who were described thus in the Kathopanishad:
avidyAyAm antare vidyamAnAH svayaM-dhIrAH paNDitammanymAnAH
dandramyamAnAH pariyanti mUDhAH andhena nIyamAnAH yathAndhAH
By the way I read a comment by you on your forum which was something like 'I don't understand why Indians respect Budhha so much'
The same Gautam Buddha when advising Ajatashatru's prime minister VassakAra had said that as long as the people of vaishAlI keep on respecting the arhats (monks, sAdhus etc of any religion, not just Budhhists), they cannot be defeated.
My mother said anyone who gives pain to a sAdhu reaps suffering for himself and his family. She didnt say a brahmin sAdhu, she meant any sAdhu.
That is what India thinks of its holy people. You are so far removed from the soul of India that you can't comprehend this yet. And I hope this little tidbit about Gautama Buddha tells you how Indians think about arhats, bhikhus, monks, sanyasis in general. And why Indians have so much respect for Buddha too.
I guess we have told each other whatever we have had to say. So there is no point in beating the same track again and again. So this will be my last post.
1. You see no big harm in destruction of kAnchi Matha and sampradAya
2. You see shrI Adi-shankara as a mere grain of sand
3. You are happy to imagine that advaita-vedanta is on its way to doom, or at least think very low of it
4. You said something like 'we are tired of hearing shri bhagavan uvacha'
5. You think vaishnavism is a different religion than shaivism
6. You believe that brahmins deserve some sort of 'karmic' retribution, and any abuse of justice or power is OK and understandable if Brahmins are punished, even after they have become ascetics.
So let me say it as mildly as I can: You are anti-hindu and a caste-bigot.
As far as I am concerned, I am not even a millionths of a grain of sand in front of ShrI Adi Shankara. So there is no point in me trying to reach upto the head of yours which according to you is placed so high that even shri Adi shankara appears to you like a grain of sand.
But your version of the future is NOT going to pass. Because I think the universe is not run according to the wishes of the people who were described thus in the Kathopanishad:
avidyAyAm antare vidyamAnAH svayaM-dhIrAH paNDitammanymAnAH
dandramyamAnAH pariyanti mUDhAH andhena nIyamAnAH yathAndhAH
By the way I read a comment by you on your forum which was something like 'I don't understand why Indians respect Budhha so much'
The same Gautam Buddha when advising Ajatashatru's prime minister VassakAra had said that as long as the people of vaishAlI keep on respecting the arhats (monks, sAdhus etc of any religion, not just Budhhists), they cannot be defeated.
My mother said anyone who gives pain to a sAdhu reaps suffering for himself and his family. She didnt say a brahmin sAdhu, she meant any sAdhu.
That is what India thinks of its holy people. You are so far removed from the soul of India that you can't comprehend this yet. And I hope this little tidbit about Gautama Buddha tells you how Indians think about arhats, bhikhus, monks, sanyasis in general. And why Indians have so much respect for Buddha too.