06-09-2006, 02:18 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->OK this is the real big issue now.
If the Vedas are nothing but poems or ballads composed by some guy sitting under a tree, then but what is the use of wasting time studying it?
Might as well read Wordsworth.
At least the Vedic Samhita has to be of divine origin otherwise it is all worthless trash.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Actually I said nothing about them being of human origin, I said don't just say that they have a divine origin but also read them once in a while to learn what they have to say, otherwise there is no use, placing them on a pedestal but happily ignoring them indicates a stupid mindset. If we say that a book is divinely revealed then we also read it to see what God has to say to us, we don't just happily pick and choose what we want (which both the Orthodox types and Arya Samajists appear to do).
The issue of the Orthodox rising from a Vedic platform has no bearing on the issue at hand, as long as they ignore the Vedas but follow later day smritis (all the while saying that the Vedas are the final authority) when it comes to issues of race they have no locus standi. I am quite explicit about my stand, if a smriti is in contradiction with a Vedic injunction then the Vedic injunction has to prevail, there are no ifs and buts.
If the Vedas are nothing but poems or ballads composed by some guy sitting under a tree, then but what is the use of wasting time studying it?
Might as well read Wordsworth.
At least the Vedic Samhita has to be of divine origin otherwise it is all worthless trash.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Actually I said nothing about them being of human origin, I said don't just say that they have a divine origin but also read them once in a while to learn what they have to say, otherwise there is no use, placing them on a pedestal but happily ignoring them indicates a stupid mindset. If we say that a book is divinely revealed then we also read it to see what God has to say to us, we don't just happily pick and choose what we want (which both the Orthodox types and Arya Samajists appear to do).
The issue of the Orthodox rising from a Vedic platform has no bearing on the issue at hand, as long as they ignore the Vedas but follow later day smritis (all the while saying that the Vedas are the final authority) when it comes to issues of race they have no locus standi. I am quite explicit about my stand, if a smriti is in contradiction with a Vedic injunction then the Vedic injunction has to prevail, there are no ifs and buts.