Post 10 (Sundareshwara):
Thank you very much for the wonderfully detailed translation. There's another verse in the Gita related to it that I often think of. Krishna says something to the effect of how when one realises that Krishna (the Divine, Brahman), pervading all, is in all creatures and things, such a person does not hurt himself by hurting others.
Once again this stresses the fundamental unity of all.
Post 11 (Bodhi):
Maharshi Dayananda is very perceptive. Very grateful that such a great mind allowed himself to read through the horrid babble in order to explain the truth concerning it to Hindus.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->[babblegawd is] This moment pleased, the next moment angry, alternatining from anger to joy, moment to moment! Whose mind is in such unstable imbalance, even His merciful grace would be worth dreading.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yes, reminds me of an excitable toddler, the nasty kind portrayed only in movies: the one that beheads its own toys when it's angry or doesn't get its way.
What I've always wondered about is why christians aren't afraid that when they finally do obtain salvation they can still lose it if they anger their easily-angered deity. I mean, according to The Word of Gawd, the holy babble, their gawd is so fickle when dealing with his minions during life; so why should he be benign all of a sudden when some of them eventually get to his heaven?
If they were, for instance, to accidentally yawn when singing Excelsior! with the heavenly choir, or if they were to protest against their good atheistic grandson being damned for his unbelief - down they'd go to hell. What makes christos so sure their salvation would be for eternity, when their gawd suffers from such extreme mood swings of gawdly proportions?
<!--QuoteBegin-Admin+Feb 5 2007, 08:53 PM-->QUOTE(Admin @ Feb 5 2007, 08:53 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The Hail Mary Strategy: Foreign Policy, as Taught By the Faculty of Bigotry</b>
<i>By Ari Saja</i>[right][snapback]64039[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Nice. Especially loved "President Bushâs Urge to Surge in Eyerak" <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Personally, I had no problem with Israel taking action against Lebanon. Unlike America - which does not neighbour Afghanistan or Iraq (or Terroristan) and has yet to show the world those dratted WMDs it went after in Iraq - Israel has to survive amidst genocidal enemies all around. Nor do I recall the Israeli political leadership claiming that their God told them to bomb Lebanon, unlike the case of George Dubya Bush who, feeling specially chosen by his imaginary gawd, proclaimed: "gawd told me to invade Eyerak". Most people who've had imaginary friends, stop seeing/hearing them when they hit 10. Guess this merely proves how christianity has stunted Dubya's mental growth.
Thank you very much for the wonderfully detailed translation. There's another verse in the Gita related to it that I often think of. Krishna says something to the effect of how when one realises that Krishna (the Divine, Brahman), pervading all, is in all creatures and things, such a person does not hurt himself by hurting others.
Once again this stresses the fundamental unity of all.
Post 11 (Bodhi):
Maharshi Dayananda is very perceptive. Very grateful that such a great mind allowed himself to read through the horrid babble in order to explain the truth concerning it to Hindus.
<b>Added:</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->[babblegawd is] This moment pleased, the next moment angry, alternatining from anger to joy, moment to moment! Whose mind is in such unstable imbalance, even His merciful grace would be worth dreading.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Yes, reminds me of an excitable toddler, the nasty kind portrayed only in movies: the one that beheads its own toys when it's angry or doesn't get its way.
What I've always wondered about is why christians aren't afraid that when they finally do obtain salvation they can still lose it if they anger their easily-angered deity. I mean, according to The Word of Gawd, the holy babble, their gawd is so fickle when dealing with his minions during life; so why should he be benign all of a sudden when some of them eventually get to his heaven?
If they were, for instance, to accidentally yawn when singing Excelsior! with the heavenly choir, or if they were to protest against their good atheistic grandson being damned for his unbelief - down they'd go to hell. What makes christos so sure their salvation would be for eternity, when their gawd suffers from such extreme mood swings of gawdly proportions?
<!--QuoteBegin-Admin+Feb 5 2007, 08:53 PM-->QUOTE(Admin @ Feb 5 2007, 08:53 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The Hail Mary Strategy: Foreign Policy, as Taught By the Faculty of Bigotry</b>
<i>By Ari Saja</i>[right][snapback]64039[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Nice. Especially loved "President Bushâs Urge to Surge in Eyerak" <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Personally, I had no problem with Israel taking action against Lebanon. Unlike America - which does not neighbour Afghanistan or Iraq (or Terroristan) and has yet to show the world those dratted WMDs it went after in Iraq - Israel has to survive amidst genocidal enemies all around. Nor do I recall the Israeli political leadership claiming that their God told them to bomb Lebanon, unlike the case of George Dubya Bush who, feeling specially chosen by his imaginary gawd, proclaimed: "gawd told me to invade Eyerak". Most people who've had imaginary friends, stop seeing/hearing them when they hit 10. Guess this merely proves how christianity has stunted Dubya's mental growth.